Chapter 1 Microscope Flashcards
What part of the microscope do you hold when moving the microscope around?
The arm
What part of the microscope supports the rest of the microscope when on a flat surface?
The base
What do you place your specimen on top of when viewing it under the microscope?
The microscope slide
What holds your slide in place?
The stage clip
What do you rest your slide on top of for viewing?
The stage
What knob do you turn do bring your specimen closer or farther away from the lenses.
The coarse adjustment knob
What lenses do you look through when viewing your specimen?
The objective lenses
How many objective lenses are there?
Four
What knob do you turn when you are focusing on your specimen?
The fine adjustment knob
What are the objective lenses mounted on to?
The nosepiece
What part of the microscope separates the eyepiece from the nosepiece?
The body tube
What are the magnification powers and names of the objective lenses and eyepiece?
The eyepiece is the ocular lens with a magnification power of 10x and the objective lenses are the scanning, low power, high power, and oil immersion lenses with the scanning lens being 4x magnification, the low power lens being 10x magnification, the high power lens being 40x magnification, and the oil immersion lens being 100x magnification
What are the total magnifications of the objective lenses with the ocular lens?
40x, 100x, 400x, and 1,000x
What part of the microscope do you look through to see you specimen?
The eyepiece
What allows you to see your specimen in dark conditions?
The light
What controls how much light is to be shown at your specimen?
The diaphragm
