Microscopy Quiz

Microscope (from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós) 'small', and σκοπέω (skopéō) 'to look (at); examine, inspect') is a laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye. Microscopy is the science of investigating small objects and structures using a microscope. Microscopic means being invisible to the eye unless aided by a microscope. There are many types of ______, and they may be grouped in different ways. One way is to describe the method an instrument uses to interact with a sample and produce images, either by sending a beam of light or electrons through a sample in its optical path, by detecting photon emissions from a sample, or by scanning across and a short distance from the surface of a sample using a probe. The most common microscope (and the first to be invented) is the optical microscope, which uses lenses to refract visible light that passed through a thinly sectioned sample to produce an observable image. Other major types of.

Microscopes use lenses to refract visible light to produce an observable image.

Electron microscopes use photons to produce images of a sample.

Microscopy is the science of investigating large objects and structures.

Compound microscopes have only one lens for magnification.

The eyepiece lens is also called the ocular lens.

The objective lens is located in the eyepiece of the microscope.