stimuli

Homeostasis...

• A stimulus from inside an organism
• How an organism reacts to a change
• The ability to maintain a stable internal environment (type of equilibrium or balance)
• A stimulus from outside an organism

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Stimulus...

• A change that prompts an action-the cause
• The ability to maintain a stable internal environment (type of equilibrium or balance)
• How an organism reacts to a change and results in a change in behavior- the effect
• Constant and balanced environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Jackson is around his friend who is constantly sick. Jackson begins coughing and sneezing the next day at school. What is the possible stimulus and response?

• Internal stimulus is coughing, the response is getting sick
• External stimulus is coughing, the response is getting sick
• Internal stimulus is germs/bacteria, the response is coughing
• External stimulus is germs/bacteria, the response is coughing

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

When an animal is thirsty, it responds by -

• eating food

• drinking water

• blinking rapidly

• sweating excessively

While sitting in a room, a person notices that the temperature has become uncomfortably warm. The body will respond by-

• shivering

• sweating

• twitching

• vomiting