Microscope Vocabulary

400X

• Low Power
• High Power
• Medium Power
• Ocular Lens/ Eyepiece

Magnification

• The ability to make an object change color
• The ability to make an object look smaller
• The ability to make an object look larger
• The ability to make an object clearer

The part of a microscope that is adjusted at low and medium power to increase the resolution of a sample

• Coarse adjustment knob
• Focus adjustment knob
• Fine adjustment knob

Provides a 10X magnification

• Medium Power
• Low Power
• High Power
• Ocular lens/ Eyepiece

Diaphragm

• Used at High Power to make small adjustments to the resolution of a sample
• Part of the microscope used to adjust the amount of light that is passing through a sample

Three increasingly more powerful lenses that can be adjusted to magnify an object

• Objective lenses
• Ocular lenses
• Tribunal lenses 

Low Power

• 100X
• 60X
• 15X
• 40X

100X

• Low Power
• Supreme Power
• High Power
• Medium Power

Part of the microscope that holds the slide and moves vertically as you turn the coarse adjustment knob

• Diaphragm
• Stage

Fine adjustment knob

• Used at high power to make small adjustments to the resolution of a sample
• Used to adjust the resolution of a sample at medium and high power