Parts of Microscope
Functions of Microscope Parts
Micellaneous
Telescopes
History of Microscopes
100
What do you look in to see the specimen?
Eyepiece or ocular
100
Holds the objective lenses.
Nosepiece
100
What is a microscope used for?
Seeing very small things
100
Looking at outer space.
What is a telescope used for?
100
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Who was the first person to describe bacteria and was the father of microscopy?
200
What part of the microscope is the slide placed on?
Stage
200
What two parts do you carry the microscope with?
Arm & Base
200
In forensic Science a microscope could be used to look at...?
fingerprints, hairs, fibers, etc.
200
NASA's telescope in space.
What is the Hubble?
200
The man who first coined the word "cell" when he was looking at a thin slice of cork?
Who is Robert Hooke?
300
What holds the microscope slide in place?
Stage Clips
300
Holds the microscope slide in place.
Stage Clips
300
How many hands should be used to carry a microscope?
TWO!
300
Telescopes that observe using radio frequencies.
What is a Radio Telescope?
300
A microscope that depends on electrons rather than light to see things like an atom.
What is an Electron Microscope?
400
Moves the stage up and down to focus the image.
Course Adjustment Knob
400
Allows light to enter the diaphragm, specimen, and lenses.
Light Source
400
Used to "sharpen" the microscope slide image.
Fine Adjustment Knob
400
VLA telescope next door in New Mexico
What is a Very Large Array?
400
The most powerful microscope made to date.
What is the scanning tunneling microscope
500
Adjusts the amount of light entering the specimen.
Diaphragm
500
Contains the ocular lens.
Eyepiece
500
A slide that uses water is called a __________?
Wet Mount
500
By gathering and focusing light.
How does a telescope work?
500
Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer
Who invented the scanning tunneling microscope?
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