Microscope Vocabulary Development

What is the meaning of magnify?

• To adjust the object
• To make far away things look closer
• To make something look bigger

What is a sample?

• What you are looking at on the slide
• Found on the side of microscope
• The rectangle glass which is put on the microscope stage

What is a lens?

• A piece of transparent material (such as glass) that is used in an vision related tool
• A pair of glasses worn on our eyes

Which is NOT true about the knobs of a microscope?

• The knobs are used to move the stage of the microscope up and down
• The knobs are used to focus on the sample
• The knobs are used to adjust the amount of light entering the microscope

Which of the following is true about objective lenses?

• The microscopes in our classroom have 3 of these lenses
• These lenses increase or decrease magnification
• More detail is seen using the high power objective lense than low power
• All of the above

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.

When you focus on a new sample, always begin with...

• low power and coarse adjustment.
• low power and fine adjustment
• high power and coarse adjustment
• high power and fine adjustment

A microscope has an eyepiece with a magnification of 10X and a low power objective lens with a magnification of 5X, What is the total magnification at low power?

• 10
• 15
• 50
• 500