Microscopes
The part that you look through. It usually contains a 10x lens.
What is the Eyepiece (or the ocular)?
What is -logy or -ology?
A suggested testable answer to a well-defined scientific question or a possible, testable explanation for observations.
What is a Hypothesis?
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
What is Genesis 1:1?
This person observed that if you left meat out in the open and allowed it to decay, maggots would appear.
Who is Aristotle?
A microscope that transmits a beam of electrons through a thinly sliced specimen.
What is a transmission electron microscope?
The Greek word that means "life."
What is bios?
A factor that changes the experiment.
What is a variable?
Purpose, Hypothesis, Materials, Procedure, Results, Conclusion.
What is the Scientific Method?
This person discovered microorganisms by inventing the microscope.
What is the stage?
The collected body of data from experiments and observations.
What is Evidence?
The variable manipulated by the experimenter.
What is the Independent Variable?
A way to write a conclusion that uses evidence from your experiment
What is CER - claim, evidence and reasoning
This man demonstrated through his experiments that microorganisms cannot spontaneously generate. He also developed a process called pasteurization.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
A microscope that shines light through a specimen using two lenses to magnify an image.
What is a compound light microscope?
Observations involving numbers, such as counting or measuring.
What are Quantitative observations?
The variable responding to the manipulated variable.
What is the Dependent Variable?
Living creatures that are too tiny to see with the naked eye.
What are Microorganisms?
This man coined the term "cell" because when he looked at cork under the microscope he found box shapes that reminded him of a monks cell.
Who is Robert Hooke?
A microscope that passes a beam of electrons over the surface of a specimen
What is a scanning electron microscope?
Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge, experience, or evidence.
What is Inference?
An explanation of some part of the natural world that has been thoroughly tested and is supported by a significant amount of evidence from observations and experiments,
What is Scientific theory?
The supposed production of living organisms from nonliving matter.
What is Spontaneous Generation?
In the 1950s, these scientists developed electron microscopes.
Who are Biologists?