Microscope Parts
Where the slide is placed.
What is the stage?
Purpose of the objective lenses.
What is magnification?
Scientist who coined the term cell.
Who is Robert Hooke?
The space that can be seen through the microscope.
What is the field of view?
The procedure for creating a slide with water on it.
What is wet mounting?
Holds the slide in place.
What are the stage clips?
Purpose of diaphragm.
What is letting more or less light in?
Scientist who discovered microorganisms.
Who is Anton von Leeuwenhoek?
What is 1,000?
Parts of the microscope that microscopes should be carried by.
What is the arm and base?
What you look into to see the specimen.
What is the eyepiece/ocular?
Purpose of eyepiece/ocular.
What is to look through?
The century microscopes were invented.
What is the 1600s?
The field of view is darkest under this power.
What is high-power?
Lens that should be used first to find a specimen.
What is the scanning objective?
Magnifies the specimen.
What are objective lenses?
Purpose of coarse adjustment.
What is to focus under low power?
The material Hooke observed under the microscope.
What is cork?
The field of view is largest under this power.
What is low-power?
Name of the stain typically used with plant specimens.
What is iodine?
The name of the microscope we use in class.
What is a compound microscope?
Purpose of fine adjustment.
What is to sharpen the image?
The pair of scientists who proposed all living things are made of cells.
Who are Schwann and Schleiden?
Formula for finding total magnification.
What is ocular magnification x objective magnification?
The plant we made a wet mount of and viewed under the microscope.
What is Elodea?