Microscope Test Study Guide

You need to know all of this plus how to write a hypothesis and how to make scientific data tables and graphs.

Part 1 – Microscope Parts Directions: Match the microscope part with its function.
1. _______ Arm a. holds slides in place

2. _______ Stage b. manages the amount of light that shines into the lens

3. _______ Base c. connects the eyepiece to the stage, which one hand
should be holding when moving the microscope

4. _______ Stage Clips d. bottom of the microscope, which one hand should be
holding when moving the microscope

5. _______ Lens e. piece of glass that is curved to bend light

6. _______ Diaphragm f. this is what you lay the slide on; it has a hole it to allow
light to come in from below

Part 2 – Microscope Terminology Directions: Match the microscope term with its definition.
1. _______ Slide a. curved outward

2. _______ Wet Mount b. when a slide does not have any liquid on it

3. _______ Convex c. calculated by multiplying the eyepiece lens

magnification with the objective lens magnification

4. _______ Concave d. curved inward

5. _______ Magnification e. when a slide has liquid on it, such as water and a cover slip

6. _______ Dry Mount f. the rectangular piece of glass that holds the specimen

7. _______ Compound g. a microscope made up of at least two lenses

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Part 3 – Microscope Rules and Facts Directions: Fill in the blank with the best answer.
1. You should never touch the ______________ of a microscope because the oil on your skin is very
difficult to clean off.

2. When you put a microscope away, you should put the smallest __________________ in place and
put the stage ____________________.

3. The study of things so small you can’t see them with the naked eye is called ________________.

4. Microscopes make specimens _____________________ larger.

5. You need ________________ to shine through a specimen in order for you to be able to see it in a
microscope.
6. If a specimen looks like it is moving to the right in a microscope, then it’s actually moving
_____________ on the slide. And if a specimen looks like it is moving up in a microscope, then it’s
actually moving __________________ on the slide.

7. An image, such as the letter ‘e’, viewed in the microscope is flipped

______________________________ and _________________________.

8. When carrying slides and cover slips, you carry them by their __________________.

9. If the eyepiece is 10X and the objective is 30X, the total magnification is __________.

10. When first viewing a specimen, you should always start with the ______________ objective.

Part 4 – Microbe Facts Directions: Fill in the blank with the best answer.
1. The three scientists who wrote the cell theory were named _______________________
and ___________________________ and ____________________________.

2. Antony van Leeuwenhoek is known as the _________________ of microscopy because he made

the best microscopes.

3. Robert Hooke coined the term ____________________, after looking at cork under the microscope.
Bacteria are single-celled organisms that do not have a ____________________.

4. Viruses are not considered to be ____________________ because they are not alive.

5. The man who first discovered microbes (animalcules) was ________________________________.

6. Not all microbes are _____________. Organisms made with one cell are called
_____________________ and those with more than one are called _______________________.

7. The first doctor to use gloves was ______________________________.

8. The military nurse who cleaned her patients was _______________________________.

9. Medicine given to someone with a bacterial infection is called _____________________________.

Part 5 – Taxonomy Facts Directions: Fill in the blank with the best answer.
1. Binomial nomenclature means that scientific names consist of the ____________________ and
________________ names. The first name is capitalized. Both are in _________________.

2. Scientific names are usually written in the language of ____________________.

3. Science groups organisms based on similar characteristics, which is known as ________________.

The scientist who created the process is ___________________________.

4. The science of classification is called _______________________.

5. The classification has __________________ kingdoms total. Kingdoms are the largest grouping.
List the rest, in order from largest to smallest: