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Vocabulary
Microscope Parts
Odds and Ends
100
A transparent material with at least one curved surface.
What is a lens?
100
The platform of a microscope where objects are put to look at them.
What is a stage?
100
Colors that are used in comic strips to make other colors.
What are primary colors?
200

How can you adjust the focus on foldscope?

By moving the ruler piece side-to-side. 

200
The part of a microscope that is used to reflect light.
What is a mirror?
200
The study of small things using magnification.
What is microscopy?
300
The brain of a cell.
What is a nucleus?
300
The part of a microscope that can be used to adjust the focus of what is being seen.
What is a focus wheel?
300
A thin piece of glass or plastic used to mount objects for examination under a microscope.
What is a slide?
400
To make something larger.
What is magnify?
400
The part of the microscope that is put near the eye and has at least one lens.
What is an eyepiece?
400
A tool that is used to enlarge an object.
What is a magnifier?
500
It makes up living things and has a nucleus.
What is a cell?
500

When examining a plant cell under a light microscope, you notice several small, green organelles within the cells. What are these organelles called and what is their primary function?

Chloroplasts
500
This color is made in comic strips by using a yellow background with blue dots.
What is green?