stimulus and response unit (ALL)

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

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

As the season turns from winter to spring, what is the most likely response that a bear's body has to the changing season?

• The bear stores more body fat to maintain the necessary body heat and more nutrition because there may be less prey.
• The bear produces less fur and begins shedding to allow its body temperature to adjust the warming climates
• The bear's fur becomes darker so it is easier to hide from its prey
• The bear begins to store food and find shelter for hibernation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Which of the following is an example of an external Stimuli?

• Becoming dehydrated and then taking a drink of water
• Getting a headache and then taking Excedrin
• Having hunger pains and then eating a sandwich
• Smelling Pizza and then eating a piece

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

A cheetah's water levels are becoming too high, and its thirst is quenched (or satisfied). In response to this, the cheetah's body will send internal signals...

• Of hunger, since the cheetah needs food

• Of thirst, since all living things need water

• To sweat, so the organism can shed some of the water

• Of quenched thirst, so the organism will stop drinking water

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

There is high temperature outside. What type of response can a person's body have to regulate body temperature?

• Wearing a jacket
• Sweating
• Taking an ice bath
• Wearing a visor

Steven sets a brand new plant near the window. After several weeks Steven realizes the flower is starting to tilt towards the sunlight. What would be considered the stimuli in this scenario?

• Water
• The dirt in the flower pot
• The sunlight
• The window

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Many birds migrate long distances when the seasons change. Which of the following is an environmental stimulus that would signal to the birds the changing seasons?

• Changes in the length of daylight
• Increases in the population of edible plants
• Decreased number of offspring per hatching event
• Increase in annual precipitation levels

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

A student places a plant in a dark room next to a growth lamp, while providing sufficient water and nutrients to ensure the plant's growth and survival.  The plant is likely to respond by-

• bending towards the lamp.
• wilting and eventually dying.
• shedding all of its leaves.
• increasing its rate of photosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

You feel hungry so you eat some food.

• external stimulus

• internal stimulus

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8