PARTS
USAGE
MAGNIFICATION
Definitions
100

The bottom part of the microscope 

What is the base?

100

How do you hold the microscope?

What is one hand on the base & one hand on the arm?

100

Magnification of a 4x objective lens

What is 40x?

100

An instrument used for viewing small objects

What is a compound microscope?

200

What we use to see the specimen

What is the eyepiece?

200

What you do if you break a slide or cover slip

What is tell Ms. Kruse ASAP

200

Magnification of the 10x lens

What is 100x?

200

Instrument used for measuring distances

What is a ruler?

300

Magnifies the image 

What is the objective lenses?

300

How you should clean the lenses on a microscope

What is lens paper?

300

Field of view for 4x power

What is 4 mm?

300

Circle of light seen through the microscope?

What is the field of view?

400

Holds the slide in place

Stage clips

400

The objective lens first used

What is the smallest lens (4x)

400

Field of view for 40x power

What is about 0.4 mm?

400

To make bigger

What is to magnify?

500

Alters the amount of light coming through the stage

What is the diaphragm?

500

Used to cover the wet mount slide

What is cover slip?

500

Used to represent distance on a drawing of field of view measurement

What is vertical lines?

500

The ration of the size of an image to the size of the real thing

What is scale?