Synapse

What's in the picture?

• synaptic vesicles

• neurotransmitters

• presynaptic neuron

• postsynaptic neuron

• synaptic cleft

What's in the picture?

• synaptic vesicles

• neurotransmitters

• presynaptic neuron

• postsynaptic neuron

• synaptic cleft

What's in the picture?

• synaptic vesicles

• neurotransmitters

• presynaptic neuron

• postsynaptic neuron

• synaptic cleft

What's in the picture?

• synaptic vesicles

• neurotransmitters

• presynaptic neuron

• postsynaptic neuron

• synaptic cleft

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-6

What's in the picture?

• synaptic vesicles

• neurotransmitters

• presynaptic neuron

• postsynaptic neuron

• synaptic cleft

Chemicals released into a cleft when an action potential reaches the terminal are called.....

• ligand gated ion channels

• synaptic vesicles

• neurotransmitters

• voltage gated ion channels

Three things that can occur when an action potential reaches a synapse are.....

• signal is delayed

• signal is stopped

• signal is transmitted

• signal is reversed

Three things that a neuron can form a synapse with are....

• muscles

• glands

• other neurons

• surface of your skin

Which pattern shows how signals are transmitted from the presynaptic neuron to the post synaptic neuron

• electrical --> electrical

• electrical --> chemical

• chemical --> electrical --> chemical

• electrical --> chemical --> electrical

Which side of the synapse contains neurotransmitters?

• presynaptic

• postsynaptic

• both