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
1. _______ Arm
Directions: Match the microscope part with its function.
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
Microscope
g. a microscope made up of at least two lenses
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: