Question | Answer |
I am the lens at the top that you look through. I have power | EYEPIECE LENS |
I am at the bottom of the microscope and I'm used for support it | BASE |
I support the tube and I connect it to the base | ARM |
I connect the eyepiece to the objective lenses | TUBE |
A steady light source (110 volts) used in place of a mirror. If your microscope has a mirror, it is used to reflect light from an external light source up through the bottom of the stage. | ILLUMINATOR |
I am the flat platform used to place your slides. | STAGE |
I am the part that holds two or more objective lenses. I can be rotated to easily change power | REVOLVING NOSEPIECE |
I give magnifications of 40X (4X times 10X), 100X , 400X and 1000X | OBJECTIVE LENSES |
I determines how close the objective lens can get to the slide. I am pre set to keep students from cranking my high power objective lens down into the slide and breaking things. ASK the TEACHER | SAFETY RACK STOP |
I focus light onto the specimen to make images sharper than those with no lens | CONDENSER LENS |
I am the rough focus knob you use first to get close. Use me first to move the objective lenses toward or away from the specimen | COARSE FOCUS |
I am a means of moving the specimen closer or further away from the objective lens to render a sharp image. | FOCUS |
I am the knob used to fine tune the focus on the specimen. | FINE FOCUS KNOB |
I hold the slides in place | STAGE CLIPS |
Times (as in 200X or two hundred times magnification). I am determined by multiplying the power of the eyepiece lens by the power of the corresponding objective lens. | X |
I am the flat glass or plastic rectangular plate that the specimen is placed on | SLIDE |