Magnified Images
Can you guess what this is?
Answer
•It’s a monarch butterfly wing magnified 50x.
Can you guess?
A common music cd magnified many times.
Can you guess?
A soap bubble!
Why magnify?
•Magnification helps scientists study thingsthat are too small to be seen with the humaneye.
•Hand lenses, magnifying glasses, andmicroscopes allow for a range of enlargedviews.
•The scanning electron microscope has allowedscientists to study things at the atomic level.
Owl feather – 50X
Cow eye cells - 100X
Blood cells Human hair
Dust mites in carpet dirt
Mosquito - 200X
Human cells enhanced withfluorescence
A close up of a moth’s eye
Magnified 5,250 times
One micrometer
.040 mm - Pollen
