Lab Safety
You should wear these to protect your eyes during experiments with chemicals/heat.
What is safety googles?
True or False: Scientists only follow one fixed procedure called The Scientific Method.
What is false?
The basic unit of length in the metric system.
What is meter?
All living things must do this to create more of their kind.
What is reproduce?
This is how you say my last name correctly.
What is Panagakis?
If an accident or emergency happens in the lab, this is always the first thing you should do.
What is tell your instructor?
The main purpose of science.
What is to explore, describe, and understand the natural world?
The basic unit of volume in the metric system.
What is liters?
This is the basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
This is one formatting expectation related to Life Science lab reports.
What is use blue/black ink; put it in your lab notebook; use section headings?
You have a small, unused amount of a chemical left over after a lab. This is what you should do with it.
What is dispose of all chemical waste properly?
The idea of using both Traditional Native (Ecological) Knowledge and Western Science together to better understand the natural world.
What is Two-Eyed Seeing?
This is what makes the metric system simple and easy to use compared to other systems of measurement.
What is it's based on the powers of 10?
This central, unifying concept in biology explains the unity and diversity among species, and the changes populations go through over time that lead to adaptations in their environment.
What is evolution?
Of the 3 paper towels tested for absorbency in our Paper Towel lab, this type did not come out on top for any group.
What is Field Day?
Name two pieces of lab safety equipment and how to use them.
What is fire extinguisher, lab safety shower, eye wash station, fire blanket?
This is the difference between a prediction and a hypothesis.
What is a prediction describes WHAT you think will happen during an experiment and a hypothesis explains WHY you think it will happen?
An average pencil is 175 millimeters (mm) long. Convert it to centimeters (cm).
What is 17.5 cm?
This characteristic of living things keeps internal conditions stable (e.g. body temperature), even when the environment changes.
What is homeostasis?
What was your science quote (first homework) and who said it?
What is...?
Name two lab safety rules you should follow when heating test tubes.
What are do not stopper test tubes and keep the mouth pointed away from you and other students?
Also: Use a test tube holder or insulated gloves; never look into a container being heated.
In everyday language, this word sometimes means just a guess, but in science it means a well-supported explanation based on longstanding evidence. Give the word and an example.
What is a theory (e.g. the cell theory, theory of evolution)?
One centimeter (cm) is equal to 10 to this power of meters.
What is -2?
This is the relationship between Life Science and Biology.
What is Life Science is the subject related to living things (the WHAT) and Biology is the formal science that studies living things (the HOW)?
Explain the difference between and observation and inference.
What is an observation is something you notice using the 5 senses while an inference is a conclusion based on observations?