Internal and External Stimuli

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. 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

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

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

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

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

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

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