The microscope

Question 1

What is a microscope?

Answer 1

It is an object that helps us look at things that are too small to see by the naked eye.

Question 2

What are the 2 different types of lenses?

Answer 2

Eyepiece lens and objective lens.

Question 3

What does the eyepiece lens do?

Answer 3

You look through it and it magnifies the object.

Question 4

What does the objective lens do?

Answer 4

The objective lens has 2 types a x4 and a x10. The x4 make the object 4 times bigger. The x10 makes the object 10 times bigger. The x10 is more powerful.

Question 5

What are the different parts of a microscope?

Answer 5

1) Eyepiece
2) Body tube
3) high and low power objective lenses
4) Stage
5) Mirror
6) Rough focusing knob
7) Fine focusing knob
8) handle
9) Slide
10) Coverslip

Question 6

What would you do if you wanted to look at cells?

Answer 6

You would the cells on the slide then add dye so u can actually see the cells the over the dye place the coverslip.