Lab Equipment
Used for measuring length
What is a metric ruler?
Magnifies or enlarges images
What are objectives or the eyepiece?
Watery cell fluid that contains organelles
What is cytoplasm?
The largest and longest artery in the body
What is the aorta?
Where digestion begins
What is the oral cavity?
Holds liquids
What is a beaker or test tubes?
Used for fine focus
What is the fine adjustment?
Involved in cellular respiration, also know as the powerhouse of the cell
What is the mitochondria?
The lower right chamber of the heart
What is the right ventricle?
Where bile is made
What is the liver?
Holds specimens
What is a dissecting pan?
Controls the amount of light passing through specimens
What is the diaphragm?
Controls cell activity
What is the nucleus?
Carries blood from the heart to the lungs
What is the pulmonary artery?
Tube that connects mouth to the stomach
What is the esophagus?
Used for getting drops of liquid
What is a medicine dropper?
Used for carrying the microscope
What are the arms and the base?
Stores water, wastes, and food
What is the vacuole?
Carries oxygen rich blood from the lungs to the heart
What is the Pulmonary Vein?
Muscular action that moves food down from the mouth towards the stomach
What is peristalsis?
Used for cutting a specimen
What is a scapel?
If I were to take the letter e and place it on a slide and looked at it under a microscope, how would it appear?
What is upside, backwards, and enlarged
Two parts found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell
What are the cell wall and chloroplasts?
Regulates the direction of blood flow in and out of the heart
What are the valves?
The difference between chemical and mechanical digestion
Mechanical Digestion is where food is physically cut, ground, and torn into smaller pieces.
Chemical Digestion is where large complex molecules are broken down into smaller molecules by the chemical process of hydrolysis.