Parts of a microscope
Small things
General Vocab
Magnifiers
Other
100

The part in which you look down to see a magnified object.

What is the eyepiece?

100

A worm-like organism that uses a whip motion to move.

What Vinegar Eels?

100

Short, hairlike paddles that help a microorganism move through water.

What is cilia?

100

The shape of a lens so that it will magnify.

What is convex?

100

To notice or perceive something

What is observe?

200

The area on a microscope that a slide rests.

What is the stage?

200

Outer protection and what helps plants keep their shape and structure. 

What are cell walls?

200

A prediction made about how something works or how two variables are related.

What is a hypothesis?

200

A hand held tool used to aid in seeing things in greater detail by making them larger.

What is a magnifying glass?

200

To separate into parts for close study

What is analyze?

300

The part on a microscope that gives you light under the object you are looking at when you do not have a light.

What is the mirror?

300

Very small structures that are the basic unit of plant and animal life.

What are cells?

300

you do this to make things clearer on a microscope

What is focus?

300

This was added to a glass so that it would magnify.

What is water?

300

These cells looked like building blocks

What are onion cells?

400

These are used to hold a slide in place.

What are the clips?

400

Too small to be seen without a microscope.

What is microscopic?

400

These are used to observe

What are the five senses?

400

A synonym for this word is clear.

What is transparent?

400

All living things

What are organisms?

500

The main part of the microscope that all other parts are connected to.

What is the body?

500

Single-celled microorganisms that can be good for you or can be bad for you.

What is bacteria?

500

Central part of a cell

What is a nucleus?

500

The maximum area that is visible through the lens of a microscope.

What is field of view?

500

These cells flow through your body

What are blood cells?