Microscope 101

The _______is used to focus the image under scanning power.

• revolving nose-piece
• fine adjustment knob
• coarse adjustment knob
• diaphragm

Never use this on your microscope when viewing under high power.

• Fine adjustment
• Diaphragm
• Course adjustment
• Stage clips

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.

This part of the microscope is the 

• eyepiece
• arm
• stage
• diaphragm 

For most compound light microscopes, the eyepiece (ocular) objective has a magnification of

• 1X
• 10X
• 100X
• 1000X

When using a microscope, the prepared slide is placed on

• the diaphragm
• the stage
• the objective
• the ocular lens

The amount of light on a specimen can be adjusted using the 

• rotating nosepiece
• the diaphragm
• the low power objective
• light switch

If a microscope has an ocular objective of 10X, and a high power objective of 50X is used, the total magnification is 

• 5X
• 50X
• 500X
• 5000X

When focusing at a high power, how should the user adjust the focus?

• Using the course adjustment knob
• Using the fine adjustment knob
• Using the rotating eyepiece until you find the right spot
• Move the slide up and down manually

The greater the ___________________, the smaller the field you are actually viewing.

• detail

• objective

• magnification

• body