Microscopes
Vocabulary
Plants/Animals
Cells!
100

This is what you look through on a microscope.

What is the eyepiece?

100

This is the basic unit of all living things

What is a cell?

100

These two organelles are found in plant cells but not in animal cells.

What are cell walls and chloroplasts?

100

These are the two types of cells

Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic

200

Magnification: You have a low power lens (4x). This is the appropriate equation for finding total magnification.

What is 10x * 4x = 40x

200

This is the key difference between a prokaryotic cell and a Eukaryotic cell. 

What is prokaryotic cells do not have a nucleus?

200

How does the structure of a nerve cell help it do its function?

What is the webbed structure allows them to communicate with other cells better?

200

This is why Euglena are often found at the top of the pond instead of the bottom

What is because they are autotrophs and want to be closer to the Sun?

300

When looking to investigate an organism, it is put on one of these before looking at it in the microscope.

What is a slide?

300

These two features of cells help both paramecium and Euglena move.

What are Cilia and Flagellum?

300

An injury to a cell can be healed in a multicellular organism through this process.

What is production of new cells?

300

Name two features of an autotrophic cell

What is green in color, have chloroplasts, Take energy from the sun?

400

When looking through a microscope, these are two features that distinguish plant and animal cells.

What is rigid structure, general color (Cell wall, chloroplasts)

400

This is an unspecialized cell in a multi-cellular organism.

What is a stem cell

400

Which of these animals have the biggest cells: Whales, Chipmunks, Humans, Parrots?

What is none: All animal cells are relatively similar in size

400

This are two features of heterotrophic cells that prove they are heterotropic

What are choloplasts and Oral Grooves? Or a way to get energy from the sun and from other means
500

Name the two types of adjustment knobs on a microscope and their functions.

What are Coarse adjustment knobs (Low power only, for large focusing needs) and fine adjustment knobs (medium and high power to make small focusing changes)

500

When a cell gets a function and becomes specialized that is known as this vocabulary word.

What is differentiated?

500

Organize these five into the levels of organization: Organ, Tissue, Organism, Organ System, Cells

What is Cells, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism?

500

These three things make up cell theory.

What is all living things are made of cells, cells come from previous cells like them, cells are the basic unit of structure and function of all living things?