Microscopy 1 - What is it?

• If you place a human hair on a microscope slide, and look at it under a microscope, is the hair itself considered the object or the image? 

  Object
• If you look at cheek cells under a microscope, are the shapes that you see when looking down the microscope the object or the image? 

  Image
• A microscope is designed to _____ small objects so that they appear larger.

  enlarge
• When using microscopes, a more detailed image is said to have a higher _____________.

  resolution
• What is the definition of magnification?

  How many times larger the image is than the object.
• What is the pathway of light through a microscope?

  Light source ➔ ____ ➔ microscope slide ➔ ____ ➔ objective lens ➔________ body tube ➔  __________➔ eye.

   stage

   object

   objective

   eyepiece lens