| A | B |
| arm | Supports the body tube |
| base | Supports the mocroscope |
| body tube | Provides distance between the lenses |
| coarse adjustment knob | Focuses image |
| diaphragm | Adjusts the amount of light |
| eyepiece lens | lense you look through to magnify the image |
| fine adjustment knob | Sharpens the image |
| mirror | Directs or reflects light |
| objective lens | Magnifies the object |
| ocular lens | Magnifies lens you look through |
| SEM | Scanning Electron Microscope, magnifies 100,000 to 250,000 times |
| TEM | Transmission Electronic Microscope, magnifies 1 to 2 million times |
| SEM | Type of microscope that produces a 3-D image |
| Ocular lens x Objective lens | Formula used to calculate total magnification |