Microscope Review

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.

What part is 5?

• coarse adjustment

• fine adjustment

• diaphragm

• stage

The ___________ holds the low and high power objective lenses and allows the lenses to rotate. 

• arm

• diaphragm

• eyepiece

• nosepiece

The ___________ hold the slide in place. 

• stage clips

• eyepiece

• body tube

• resolution

The ___________  of the microscope controls the amount of light passing through the stage.

• objective lens

• diaphragm

• body tube

• low-power

The _________ separates the eyepiece lens from the objective lens.  

• nosepiece

• stage

• body tube

• base

The _______________ is the large knob used to focus on the specimen. It moves either the stage of the upper part of the microscope (up and down).

• fine focus knob

• coarse focus knob

This is what you look through, has a magnification of 10x

• body tube

• diaphragm

• eyepiece

• base

This is where the slide is placed.

• stage

• arm

• base

• diaphragm