Microscope Skills Practice

When you focus on a new specimen, always begin with

• low power and coarse adjustment.
• low power and fine adjustment
• high power and coarse adjustment
• high power and fine adjustment

If your teacher asks you to move a microscope to table, how do you carry it?

• by the body tube and the eyepiece
• with one hand
• one hand on the arm and the other under the base
• with one hand on the base and the other on the eyepiece.

Which part of the microscope controls the amount of light available?

• coarse adjustment knob
• diaphragm
• objective lens
• revolving nosepiece

Which part lets you turn up the power of magnification, such increasing from 40x to 100x?

• coarse adjustment knob
• diaphragm
• field-of-view
• revolving nosepiece

What is part 1?

• eye piece
• body tube
• arm
• coarse adjust

What part is 5?

• coarse adjustment
• fine adjustment
• diaphragm
• stage

The specimen slide is placed on the ___

• platform

• table

• stage

• base

Typically located in the base of the microscope, it provides light:

• condensor

• light source

• diaphragm

• adjustment knob

These are used to hold the slide in place:

• rotating nosepiece

• objective lenses

• stage clips

• adjustment knobs

How many hands do you use to carry a microscope?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4