Name__________________________
Honors Biology
Study Guide:
Period:________
Due Date:____________
Topic: Microscope
Use the following to fill in the diagram and answering the questions:
Textbook pgs. 190 – 194, Notes online in handouts and documents, and Handout.
Key ideas to know:
1. How do microscopes work?
2. What is the role of the light microscope, stains and the electron microscope in the study
of the cell?
3. What is the cell theory?
4. How are prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells different?
Use Cornell Notes or Modified Cornell Notes when answering the questions
Questions:
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How were microscopes invented?
Compare and contrast modern light microscopes and electron microscopes?
Describe the three main points of the cell theory?
Describe the main differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
If you have an ocular lens of 10x and an objective lens of 40x, what is the
total magnification?
6. List the order you should use in focusing a specimen from first putting the
slide on and getting it focused under high power?
7. Why is it important to center your specimen in low power?
8. Why don’t you ever use course adjustment in high power?
9. What do you adjust if you need more light to see a specimen?
10. Describe what happens to field of view when you go from low power to high
power.
11. Describe what happens to depth of field when you go from low power to
high power.
12. Define resolution and describe what happens when you go from low power
to high power.
Vocabulary terms:
Resolution
Nucleus
Cell membrane
Compound Microscope
Depth of Field
Electron Microscope
Prokaryote
Eukaryote