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What part rotates between objective lenses?   Revolving nose piece  
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What are the main lenses that range from low to medium to high power?   The objective lenses  
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What part of the microscope acts as a platform and supports the slide?   The stage  
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What part actually holds the specimen slide in place on the stage?   Stage clips  
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What part supports the whole microscope?   The base  
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What part regulates how much light enters the slide?   The diaphragm  
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What part provides the light needed for viewing specimen?   The light source  
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What is the larger knob that simply focuses the specimen in large increments - in low power?   The Course knob adjustment  
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What is the small knob used for "fine tuning" and clear focusing on the specimen?   The fine knob adjustment  
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What part do you hold to transport the scope? It connects the base with the rest of the scope.   The Arm  
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Who discovered the cell using a simple compound scope?   Robert Hooke  
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Who observed pond water to discover a living cell?   Anton Leeuwenhoek  
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What is magnification?   Enlarging the view of the specimen  
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What is the TEM?   Transmission Electron Microscope  
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Which EM uses a thin sliced specimen, 2-D view, and magnification over 200,000 X?   TEM - transmission electron microscope  
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Which EM uses an electron beam focused on a specimen coated with metal, 3-D view, and magnification over 100,000 X   SEM - Scanning electron microscope  
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What holds the ocular lense a certain distance from the objective lenses?   The Body Tube  
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Our microscope's ocular lense multiplies the objective lense by what magnification?   10X  
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What microscope is known as the "dissecting microscope", sees 3-D images, and is relatively low power.   Stereo scope  
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What microscope uses light, sees 2-D images, can view living and non-living specimens, up to about 2000X   Compound light microscope  
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What view gets smaller as the magnification increases?   The field of view - total area that is seen  
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What is the ability to see differences between light and dark in an image?   Contrast  
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