Name: ___________________________________________ Date: ________________________________ Period: ______
Exploring Life Review
INSTRUCTIONS:
Complete the following questions and tasks to help prepare for the upcoming assessment. Try to complete each
question/task without referring to your notes. Use notes/assignments to check your answers and to answer the questions
you couldn’t answer on your own. Use information from the Life Science textbook, chapter 1 Lesson 3, to answer
questions you can’t answer using your notes. Be sure to add any missing information to your notes.
1. Describe a compound light microscope. _____________________________________________________________
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2. Differentiate between a light microscope and an electron microscope.
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3. Differentiate between a scanning electron microscope and a transmission electron microscope and give an example
of when each is used.
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4. Observe the microscopic images of the white blood cell below. Explain why the images are different.
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5. A student observes a blood cell with a compound microscope that has a 10X ocular (eyepiece) lens and a 40X
objective lens. How much larger does the blood cell appear under the microscope?
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