Parts of a Microscope
What 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?
I applied my mind to examine and explore through wisdom all that is done under Heaven.
What is Ecclesiastes 1:13?
This person observed that if you left meat out in the open and allowed it to decay, maggots would appear.
Who is Aristotle?
The microscope disk that holds the lenses and revolves.
What is the revolving nosepiece?
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 disease that caused the shutdown of most countries in the world in 2020.
What is Covid-19 (or CoronaVirus)?
This man demonstrated through his experiments that microorganisms cannot spontaneously generate. He also developed a process called pasteurization.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Metal tubes that contain lenses of varying power, usually 4x, 10x, and 40x.
What are the Objectives (lenses)?
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?
This part regulates the amount of light that passes through the slide/specimen. It is located between the stage and the light source.
What is the Diaphragm?
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?