microscope use and safety

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 the 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 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 3?

• eye piece
• base
• arm 
• coarse adjust

What part is 12?

• coarse adjustment

• light

• diaphragm

• stage

What is part 6?

• arm 
• base
• body tube
• illuminator

The microscopes we used in class had three ________________ which allows different amounts of magnification.

• detail

• magnification

• objectives

• body

The smallest objective we used in class was _____X.

• two

• three

• four

• five

The ___________________________ are used to hold the slide on the stage.

• field

• mirror

• stage

• stage clips