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Section 4
Term | Definition |
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compound light microscope | a microscope that shines light through a specimen and has 2 lenses to magnify an image |
eye piece | a lens that magnifies the image in a microscope by 10x |
objective lens | lens that enlarges the image of the specimen |
stage | a platform that supports a slide holding the specimen |
light source | a light bulb that provides light for viewing the image |
magnification | the increase of an objects apparent size |
nosepiece | the structure that holds the set of objective lens |
resolution | the power to show details clearer in an image |
scanning electron microscope | a microscope that produces an enlarged, three dimensional image of an object by using a beam of electrons rather than light |
transmission electron microscope | a microscope that transmits a beam of electrons through a very thin slice of specimen and that can magnify up to 200,000x |
metric system | a single standard system of measurement |
base unit | units that describe length, mass, time, and other quantities |