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Unit 2.1 Making Things Bigger Flashcards
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- 1What does magnified mean?To make something appear larger than it is for example a telescope or a microscope or possibly binoculars.
- 2What is a microscope?The microscope is a device used to view very small objects by magnifying the image.
- 3What is a Specimen?A specimen is a sample of something, like a specimen of blood or body tissue that is taken for medical testing.
- 4What does microscopic mean?So small that it is visible only with a microscope.
- 5What is objective lens?The lens of the microscope closest to the stage.
- 6What is a monocular microscope?A light microscope that only has one ocular lens.
- 7What does dissect mean?To cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure.
- 8What is an image?What is seen using the microscope.
- 9What is a stereo microscope?A binocular microscope that creates a 3 dimensional image.
- 10What is magnification?Magnification is the process of enlarging something only in appearance, not in physical size.
- 11What is field of view?The amount of a specimen seen through a microscope.
- 12What is an electron microscope?A microscope that uses tiny particles of electrons instead of light to and are able to magnify up to a million times.
- 13What is a micrometer?One thousandth of a millimeter or one millionth of a meter.
- 14How magnification is calculated.
- 15Parts of a microscopehe parts of a microscope will be described in the following flashcards...
- 16Objective lensMagnifies the image
- 17Ocular lensMagnifies the image
- 18StageWhere specimen is placed
- 19Mirror or lampDirects light through the stage and specimen.
- 20HandleFor carrying the microscope
- 21Fine focus knobUsed to focus image on high power
- 22Coarse focus knobUsed to focus the image on low power.
