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Flashcards: Microscope Quiz

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falseTRUE/FALSE: You always carry a microscope with 2 hands, and far away from your body.
falseTRUE/FALSE: Only one hand is needed to carry the microscope, as long as you carry it close to your body.
trueTRUE/FALSE: You should always carry the microscopes with two hands, and close to your body.
falseTRUE/FALSE: Use any peice of cloth including you shirt to wipe of the eyepice and objectives. Use every time you begin and every time you end using the microscope.
trueTRUE/FALSE: Use only the special peices of cloth on the glass pieces to clean that will be given to you by your teacher.
falseTRUE/FALSE: Always focus the microscope by moving the stage up.
trueTRUE/FALSE: Always focus the microscope by moving the stage down.
falseTRUE/FALSE: You don't need to pay much attention to the objective lenses ever, because they are an inferior piece of equipment.
falseTRUE/FALSE: You don't need to pay much attention to the objective lenses ever, unless they are going to touch the slide, in which you would immediately turn the objective lense back to the previous setting.
trueTRUE/FALSE: You should always and constantly be paying attention to whether or not the objective lenses might touch the aperture, slide, or stage.
ACBDEPUT IN ORDER: C) unplug and wrap cord A) turn of light D) Take off the slide and move stage to the uppermost possible position E) Place dust cover on. B) turn objective lenses to low power. (An answer might say CBEAD, if you think the sentences corresponding with the letters should go in that order. This is who to prepare microscope for storage.)
EBDCAPUT IN ORDER: B) unplug and wrap cord D) turn objective lenses to low power. A) Place dust cover on C) Take off the slide and move stage to the uppermost possible position E) turn of light . (An answer might say CBEAD, if you think the sentences corresponding with the letters should go in that order. This is who to prepare microscope for storage.)
BEADCPUT IN ORDER: B) turn of light A) turn objective lenses to low power. D) Take off the slide and move stage to the uppermost possible position E) unplug and wrap cord C) Place dust cover on. (An answer might say CBEAD, if you think the sentences corresponding with the letters should go in that order. This is who to prepare microscope for storage.)
field of viewVOCABULARY: The area visible through the microscope.
magnificationVOCABULARY: The ability to make things larger than they appear.
stageVOCABULARY: The flat platform where you place your slides. _____ clips hold the slide in place.
baseVOCABULARY: At the bottom of the microscope, this is used for support.
objective lensesVOCABULARY: There are 3; they give magnification levels of 4x, 10x, and 40x.
optical lensVOCABULARY: The lens at the top that you look through. They are usually 10 or 15x of magnification.
diaphragmVOCABULARY: A disk underneath the stage that controls the amount of light passed through to the stage.
coarse adjustment knobVOCABULARY: This knob moves the stage quite a bit to focus an object.
fine focus knobVOCABULARY: This knob moves the stage only a little bit to focus an object.
total magnificationVOCABULARY: The total magnification gotten when you multiply the magnification from the optical lense and the objective lense.