Question | Answer |
Always start with the microscope set in ________ position. | Low |
What is the first adjustment knob you should turn? The second? | First turn the COARSE adjustment knob, then the FINE adjustment knob for all power levels on the microscope |
ORGANISM | -A living thing |
MICROSCOPE | -an instrument that makes objects appear larger |
SIMPLE MICROSCOPE | -a microscope with one lense |
COMPOUND MICROSCOPE | -a microscope with two lenses |
SPECIMEN | -What is being observed or viewed |
ELECTRON MICROSCOPE | -A microscope that uses a beam of electrons to magnify an image |
What are the two lenses of a microscope? | -The eyepiece and the objective |
How do you find the total magnification of a compound microscope setting? | -Multiply the eyepiece times the objective |
Robert Hooke | -Discovered "tiny rectangular rooms" and named them "cells" while examining a thin slice of cork |
Anton van Leeuwenhoek | -Discovered one-celled organisms and named them "animalcules" while examining water, teeth/gum scrapings, and water under a microscope |
RESOLUTION | -the sharpness of an image produced by the microscope |
FIELD OF VIEW | -the part of the specimen that can be seen when you look into the eyepiece |
The greatest field of view is produced by which power? | Low |
The most detail is produced by which power | High |
As magnification increases, the field of view | Decreases |
when you move a slide in one direction, the specimen is seen in the eyepiece as moving the (opposite or same) direction? | Opposite |