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Cells of Life
Microsocopes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Holds the slide in place, letting light pass through it | Eyepiece |
| Adjusts 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 different magnifications. | Diaghragm |
| Enables you to see magnified specimen | Microscope tube |
| A thin boundary around the cell that keeps things inside the cell, lets some needed things into the cell,and lets wastes leave | Cell membrane |
| A very thin boundary around the nucleus of the cell. | Nuclear membrane |