microscope

This part of the microscope supports the specimen slide.

• base

• arm

• stage

• diaphragm

This part contains the lens you look through.

• nosepiece

• eyepiece

• low power objective lens

• high power objective lens

If you want to control the amount of light entering the field of view, you would move this part to make the hole smaller or larger.

• eyepiece

• nosepiece

• mirror/light

• diaphragm

The two parts we hold to carry the microscope safely.

• arm and base

• arm and body tube

• eyepiece and base

• stage and arm

If the eyepiece is 10X and we are using the high objective lens (40X), how many times is the image magnified?

• 40

• 4000

• 400

• 4

We begin to look at our specimen using which combination?

• high power and fine adjustment knob

• high power and coarse adjustment knob

• low power and coarse adjustment knob

• low power and fine adjustment knob

This part connects the eyepiece to the nosepiece.

• arm

• stage

• body tube

• diaphragm

Which scenario is correct?

• Focusing a slide under high power with the coarse adjustment knob.

• Focusing a slide under low power with the coarse adjustment knob

• Carrying the microscope by the base and body tube

• Focusing a slide by moving the diaphragm

Which piece revolves to change the objective lenses?

• eyepiece

• stage

• diaphragm

• nosepiece

What is the type of microscope we use in the lab?

• transmission electron microscope

• phase contrast microscope

• compound light microscope

• fluorescence microscope