Microscope Parts
This moves the stage up and down to bring the specimen into focus.
What is the stage focus?
This is a chemical or natural substance added to soil or land to increase its fertility.
What is fertilizer?
The outer shell of the seed, it is hard and protects the embryo until it can grow.
What is the seed coat?
A slender tube attached to a bulb, for transferring or measuring out small amounts of liquid.
What is the pipette?
This is used to bring the specimen into sharp focus under low power and is used for all focusing when using high power lens.
What is the fine focus?
This is responsible for transferring energy from one point to another in the plant. It's also critical in root development and flowering.
What is phosphorus?
The part of a seed that acts as a food store for the developing plant embryo
What is the endosperm?
A narrow container marked with horizontal lines to represent the measurement of the volume of liquids.
What is a graduated cylinder?
This magnifies the image.
What is the eyepiece?
This helps regulate plant metabolism and affects water pressure regulation inside and outside of plant cells.
What is potassium?
This part of a plant is the plant itself but very small, like a baby inside of the seed coat feeding on the endosperm, waiting for its signal to grow.
What is the embryo?
A container that measures the volume of liquid.
What is a beaker?
This lens gathers light from the specimen, magnifies the image of the specimen, and projects the magnified image into the body tube.
What is the objective lens?
This is a part of the chlorophyll, which gives plants their green color and is involved in creating food for the plant through photosynthesis. Lack of nitrogen shows up as general yellowing (chlorosis) of the plant.
The two different types of seeds (alphabetical order).
What are dicots and monocots?
A unit of measurement that measures the distance of approximately 39 inches.
What is a meter?
This controls the amount of light going through the stage and into the objective lenses.
What is the diaphragm?
This is often used in chemistry labs, in both elementary schools and advanced university labs, for staining microscopic organisms.
What is iodine?
The process by which water, CO2 and sunlight combine in plants to produce glucose (food for the cell) and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
A unit of measurement that measures amounts of volume (one kilogram of water).
What is a liter?