MICROSCOPE LAB Quiz

What is the purpose of the stage clips?

• To locate the specimen slide

• To support the microscope

• To focus on the specimen slide

• Hold the specimen slide in place on the stage

Which adjustment knob is used for final focusing?

• Coarse Adjustment Knob

• Fine Adjustment Knob

Which objective lens allows greater magnification?

• High power objective lens

• Low power objective lens

Which adjustment knob is used for first focusing? (I.e. moving the stage closer or farther away form the objective lenses).

• Coarse Adjustment Knob

• Fine Adjustment Knob

What is the purpose of the diaphragm on the microscope?

• It is the light source

• It regulates the amount of light

• Supports the stage

• Used for first focusing

Which objective lens is used to locate the specimen?

• High power objective lens

• Low power objective lens

What is the purpose of the stage?

• To mount the specimen

• To sharpen the image of the specimen

• To magnify the the image

• Holds the slide in place

What is the part that rotates the objective lenses?

• Nose piece

• Coarse Adjustment Knob

• Fine Adjustment Knob

• Occular Lens

These are the two parts of the microscope support the entire microscope's structure.

• Arm; Illuminator

• Base; eyepiece

• Arm; Base

• Objective Lenses; Stage

Match the following

• Objective Lens

• This controls the amount of light that passes through a slide or specimen while under the microscope; it is located underneath the stage

• Light Source

• Changes the magnification of the microscope

• Stage

• Used to look through the microscope has a magnification

• Eyepiece

• On the microscope where the slide or specimen "sits"

• Diaphragm

• Illuminates the object/specimen/slide on the microscope