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| base | The two things that hold the microscope in place;separately they are called feet, but together they are called __________. |
| lamp | located between the legs of the base under the aperature. |
| diaphragm | allows you to change the amount of light that comes up through the aperature |
| aperature | The hole in the middle of the stage. This allows light to come up from behind your slide. |
| stageclips | clips on top of the stage that hold the slide in place |
| stage | large, flat area directly under the objective lenses |
| eyepiece or ocular | The piece of the microscope where you put your eye. |
| body tube | long, skinny tube that holds the eypiece up above the microscope. It also allows light of the image to travel up from the objective to the eyepiece. |
| nosepiece | holds 2 or 3 objectives lenses:rotates, allowing you to choose which objective lens you want to use |
| arm | holds the upper portion of the microscope; also, where you grab the microscope |
| coarse adjustment | big round knob that allows you to move the upper portion of the microscope up and down so that you can focus on a slide |
| fine adjustment | little knob in the center of the coarse adjustment knob; used to fine tune the image |
| slide | thin piece of glass where your specimens are mounted that you place directly over the opening in the stage and is held in place by stage clips |
| objective lenses | lenses attached to the nosepiece; vary in size |
| high power objective | longest lens; most powerful |
| low power objective | shortest lens; least powerful |
