Question | Answer |
Hold the slde in place, letting light pass through it. | Eyepiece |
Adjust the position of the lenses so that the object can be seen clearly: can be coarse or fine. | Objective lens |
Light travels through it to the eyepiece lens. | Focus knob |
Controls the amount of light passing through the object. | Base |
Supports the microscope. | Mirror |
Reflects light up through the slide into the lenses. | Stage |
Used to locate specimen, then get diffrent magnifications. | Diaphragm |
Enables you to see magnified specimen. | Microscope tube |
A thin boundary around the cell that keeps things inside the cell, let some needed things into the cell, and lets wastes leave. | Cell membrane |
A very thin boundary around the nucleus of the cell. | Nuclear membrane |
A storage area of the cell that is full of flurid. | Vacuole |
Little round parts of cells that make chemicals called proteins, which are needed so that we can survive and grow. | Ribosomes |
Long thread-like bodies in the nucleus of the cell that carry all the information we get from our parents. | Chromosomes |
Living jelly-like material inside a cell, which is continually moving. | Cytoplasm |
Controls the activities of the cell. | Nucleus |
The powerhouse of the cell; supplies energy to the cell. | Mitochondrion |
Gives protection, support and shape to a plant cell. | Cell wall |
Green parts of plant cells that carry out the chemical reaction called | |