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Microscopes

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name

Class

Date

While focusing a microscope on high power a student crushed the cover slip. The student probably

closed the diaphragm

turned up the light intensity

rotated the eyepiece

used the course adjustment knob

A microscope has an ocular magnification of 10 and a high power objective magnification of 50. What is the highest total magnification of the microscope?

500x

400x

50x

40x

Supports the body tube and is used to carry the microscope.

Body Tube

Base

Arm

Stage

Passageway for light and maintains the correct distance between the lenses.

Body Tube

Diaphragm

Mirror or light source

Stag

Holds the microscope slide in place

Stage Clips

Stage

Arm

Base

Controls the amount of light that enters the body tube

Eyepiece

Mirror

Coarse Adjustment Knob

Diaphragm

Moves slightly and is used to sharpen the image of the object you are viewing.

Coarse Adjustment Knob

Stage

Fine Adjustment Knob

Revolving Nosepiece

Holds high- and low-power objectives; rotates to change magnification.

Arm

Revolving Nosepiece

Base

Stag 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.

10.

You can find total magnification by which of the following methods?

ocular PLUS objective

ocular TIMES objective

ocular MINUS objective

ocular DIVIDED BY objective

11.

What is number 15?

light source

base

coarse adjustment

fine adjustment

12.

When looking through your microscope, you move your slide to the right- It appears

to move to the right

to stay the same

to move to the left

vanish

13.

The lens you look through, closest to the top of the microscope, is called the

objective lens

ocular lens

diaphragm

light source

14.

The ________ of the microscope would show you the MOST zoomed in image, or the SMALLEST field of view.

low power objective

medium power objective

high power objective

stage

15.

What power do you start with when using a microscope?

High power

Medium power

Low power

Extra high power

16.

Who was the person who used his microscope to observe a thin slice of cork, and concluded that the cork was made up of cells?

Robert Hooke

Bill Nye

Matthias Schleiden

Rudolf Virchow

17.

Which scientist came up with the first IDEA for a microscope?

Janssen

Leewenhoek

Hooke

Bill Nye
(BILL BILL BILL)

18.

When viewing the letter "e" under the microscope, it appears...

Upside down

Normal

Backward

Upside down and backward

19.

After using the microscope, it should be left...

With the stage lowered

On the highest objective

Unplugged

With the cord wrapped around the base.

20.

The clarity of the image is known as

Magnification

Resolution

Reset

Microscopes

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

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