Parts of the Microscope
Characteristics of Life
Vocabulary
Microscope Labs
Grab Bag
100
What support is located at the bottom of the microscope?
The Base
100
What characteristic of life is best descibed by spores on ferns, or the pollen in flowers?
Reproduction
100
This is what you see when you look through the eyepiece.
Field of View
100
The procedure for creating one of these is like making an oreo cookie. First you use a base slide, then you place the sample on the slide, and finally you cover the sample with another glass slide.
Dry Mount Slide
100
How may days are in a year excluding a leap year.
365
200
What two knobs on the microscopes are used to bring the samples being viewed in to focus?
Course and Fine Adjustment
200
When we breath in oxygen and exhale Carbon Dioxide this would be an example of what Characteristic of Life?
Gas Exchange
200
This word means to make something LARGER.
Magnify
200
I can create on of these by having a glass slide with a sample on it, then placing a few drops of water on the sample, and finally covering the sample with a coverslip.
Wet Mount Slide
200
What type of roaches does Mr. S have in the back of the room?
Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches
300
This piece of the microscope has a power of 10 and is also where you can check out the field of view?
Eyepiece
300
Going to the bathroom during every mod is how 6th grade students carry out this characteristic of life.
Remove Waste
300
This word refers to the magnification of a lens.
Power
300
If i was measuring my field of view in a lab and I noticed that I had six lines from the ruler visible in my sample how wide is my field of view?
5 millimeters
300
What is the vocabulary word for something that appears to be nonliving until placed in the correct environment.
Dormant
400
These parts of the microscope have various powers and are located on a turntable which allows you to easily switch from one to another.
Objective lenses
400
A deer that can not find water or food near his home may move to another area to find it best exhibits this characteristic of life.
Response to Environment
400
I can find this by multiplying the power of the eyepiece and the power of the objective lens being used.
Total Magnification
400
When using a microscope and viewing layers at different distances from each other (like the ribbon lab)how many layers can I have in focus at one time?
1
400
Where is the fire extinguisher located?
Near the door/window
500
What is the part of the microscope that allows the user to adjust the amount of light being used to view a sample?
The Diaphragm
500
Name 5 of the 7 most important characteristics of life.
Gas Exchange, Need Energy, Reproduction, Remove Waste, Growth, Response to Stimuli/Environment, and Need Water
500
This was the focus of our ribbon lab and refers to the distance at which a lens system focuses.
Focal Plane
500
When I measure a sample at 40X it was 2.5 mm if I changed the total magnification to 100x how big would the sample be?
2.5 mm
500
How do you spell Mr. S's last name?
Szyszkowski