Microscope Worksheet – Cork
Name:
Period:
1. Get a piece of cork from Ms Rowlands and make a dry slide.
2. Using proper microscope technique, get the specimen in view under the low-power
objective. Try to look around the edges of the piece of cork for some cells.
3. Draw 10 - 15 cork cells that are close together and label any part of the cell seen. Make sure
your drawing is to scale!
4. Switch to high-power objective, draw 10 - 15 cork cells that are close together, and label
any part of the cell seen.
Microscope Worksheet – Cork
5. Describe the general shape of the cork cell.
6. Are you viewing one or many cells at a time?
7. What is the only part of the cork cell you are looking at?
8. Are cork cells animal or plant? Give some reasons why you think so from your
observations under the microscope.