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Function over Fashion
How do you function?
What's Wrong?
100
This houses and supports the eyepiece.
What is the body tube?
100
The size and weight help this support and steady the microscope during use.
What is the base?
100
This is the function of the diaphragm.
What is it controls the amount of light that reaches the specimen?
100
What position should the stage be in when you first start focusing on your specimen?
What is it should be in the lowest possible position?
100
You look into the microscope but you see complete darkness. What did you fail to do?
What is turn on the power switch? Or plug it into the wall.
200
This creates the light that illuminates the specimen so it can be viewed.
What is the light source/illuminator?
200
This allows the stage to move up and down so that the specimen can INITIALLY be brought into focus
What is the course adjustment knob?
200
The 400X lens is also known as this...
What is the high powered lens?
200
This is the total magnification power if you use an eyepiece with 10x magnification?
What is 100xs?
200
If your slide keeps moving while focusing, what have you forgotten to do?
What is you have forgotten to secure your slide with stage clips?
300
These help secure the specimen slide onto the stage.
What are the stage clips?
300
This supports the top half of the microscope and connects to the base.
What is the arm?
300
This is the most usual magnification for the low power objective lens.
What is 4X?
300
Examine the microscope diagram. Identify structure E and describe its function.
What is it is the eyepiece/ocular lens - you look through it to view the specimen.
300
You dropped your microscope on the ground. What went wrong?
What is you didn't carry the microscope by the base and the arm?
400
These help the ocular lens magnify the image of the specimen.
What are the objective lenses?
400
This lens at the top of the microscope is what you look through to view the specimen.
What is the eyepiece/ocular lens
400
400X really stands for how many times magnified?
What is 4,000!?
400
Examine the microscope diagram. Identify structure H and describe what is HOUSED inside of it.
What is the base and it houses the electronics that allow the light to function?
400
While focusing on your specimen, you hear your slide crack. What happened and why?
What is the objective lens came into contact with the slide and broke it? Probably because you were using the course adjustment knob with the high power objective lens.
500
This controls the amount of light that reaches the specimen on the stage.
What is the diaphragm?
500
You use this to move the stage up and down and fine tune the focus on the specimen.
What is the fine adjustment knob?
500
What is the usual magnification for the medium power objective lens?
What is 10X?
500
Examine the microscope diagram. Identify structure M and describe its function.
What is it is the condenser lens. It helps to focus the light onto the specimen to make a sharper image.
500
You started focusing your specimen on the low power objective lens and you use the course adjustment knob to move the stage slowly upward. But you can't get your image in focus. What did you forget to do?
What is you forgot to start the stage at the lowest position?
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