Created by Ilyana Hishammudin
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Question | Answer |
1. What must the specimen being looked at be to let the light pass through it easily? | It must be very thin. |
2. What is a light microscope that has two ocular lenses? | Binocular microscopes. |
3. What do microscopes allow us to do? | Microscopes allow scientists to see the tiny building blocks that make up living things. |
4. What is a specimen? | A specimen is a sample of something, like a specimen of blood or body tissue that is taken for medical testing. |
5. What is the image? | What you see through the microscope is called the image. |
6. What are the lenses found in a light microscope called? | The objective lens and the ocular lens. |
7. How do you see the image when using a stereo microscope? | The image you see is in three dimensions. |
8. What is a stereo microscope mainly used for? |
A stereo microscope is often used to examine and dissect small plants or animals, etc.
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9. How does the magnification of the microscope work? | It tells you how much bigger the image is than the real object. |
10. How are electrons more powerful than light microscopes? | They use beams on tiny particles called electrons instead of light, and are able to magnify up to a million times. |
11. What are the two types of electron microscopes? | Transmission electron microscopes scanning electron microscopes. |
12. What is the field of view? | How much you see of the specimen when you look down a microscope. |
13. Which microscope does light reflects off the specimen? | The stereo microscope. |
14. What is a micrometre? | A micrometre is one-thousandth of a millimetre, or one-millionth of a metre. It is the unit most often used by scientists to measure microscopic objects. |
15. What does TEM stand for? | Transmission electron microscope. |
16. What does SEM stand for? | Scanning electron microscope. |
17. What does the fine focus knob do? | It is used to focus the image on high power. |
18. What is a monocular microscope? | It is a type of light microscope that has only one eyepiece or ocular lens. |
19. What is the meaning of magnified? | To make something appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope. |
20. What does objective lens do? | It magnifies the image. |
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