11.02: Stimuli Vocabulary Practice

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

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

Which of the following is an example of internal stimuli?

• Smelling pizza and then eating a piece of pizza
• Seeing ice cream on television and then eating a bowl of ice cream
• After working out feeling sore in your legs and then placing ice on the sore spot
• After working out seeing a bottle of water and drinking water

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

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

When a plant wilts due to a drought, it is responding to which of the following internal stimuli?

• Decreased water pressure within the plant cells.
• lack of nutrients carried by water in the plant.
• Decreased rate of photosynthesis in the stem.
• Increased storage of glucose in the leaves.

What type of stimulus is the smell of pizza?

• Internal

• External

• Learned

• Instinct

What type of stimulus is a loud fire alarm?

• Internal

• External

• Learned

• Instinct

A chef picks up a hot pot and drops it. What was the stimulus?

• The hot pot

• Dropping the pot