Microscope Vocabulary

What do you use to fine tune the image?

• stage

• base

• fine adjustment knob

• coarse adjustment knob

The ________ holds up two or three objective lenses and rotates around in a cirlce.

• arm

• eyepiece

• base

• stage

What holds the whole microscope up, usually consists of two legs attached to the arm?

• eyepiece

• coarse adjustment knob

• base

• stage

This allows you to move the upper portion of the microscope up and down.

• coarse adjustment knob

• fine adjustment knob

• stage

• base

A large, flat area with a hole in the middle directly under the objective lenses.

• base

• eyepiece

• arm

• stage

The __________ is where you look into the microscope to see the image.

• base

• coarse adjustment knob

• stage

• eyepiece