Lab Safety
The Metric System
Scientific/Standard Notation
Graphs, accuracy precision
Distance and Displacement
100
This piece of safety equipment protects your eyes from chemical splashes and flying particles.
What are safety goggles?
100
This metric unit abbreviation is used to represent meters.
m
100
What is this number in standard notation
3.5×10^2?
350
100
What type of graph is this?
Pie Chart/graph
100
This describes the total length of the path an object travels or the length between points A and B.
What is distance?
200
Before starting any laboratory activity, this document should be read carefully to understand the procedure and potential hazards.
What are the lab instructions (or lab procedure)?
200
Which is greater: 750 mL or 1 L?
What is 1 L
200
Convert 0.0064 into scientific notation
6.4×10^−3
200
This type of graph is best used to show how data changes over time.
What is a line graph?
200
This describes the shortest possible length of the path an object travels from point A to B
What is displacement?
300
If a chemical is accidentally spilled on your skin, this is the first thing you should do.
What is immediately flush the area with water and notify the teacher?
300
convert 3.5 kilometers to meters
3500 meters
300
A positive exponent in scientific notation tells you to move the decimal point in this direction
What is to the right?
300
A student measures a 10.0 cm object five times and gets 10.0 cm each time, but the actual length is 12.0 cm. Define this in terms of precision and accuracy
What is precise but not accurate?
300
A student walks 10 meters east and then 10 meters west, ending where they started. This is the displacement of the student.
Hint: Think about the directions they travel
0 meters
400
This piece of equipment is used to put out small fires and should only be used if instructed by the teacher.
What is a fire extinguisher?
400
Place these from smallest to largest: 0.2 m, 15 cm, 250 mm
250 mm, 15 cm, 0.2 m
400
Which value is greater: 4.2×10^5 or 3.9×10^6?
3.9×10^6
400
Observe this data set. The different types a of sports are what?
What is the independent variable?
400
A student walks 10 meters east. The "10 meters" describes the magnitude, while "east" describes this part of the vector.
What is the direction?
500
A student notices broken glass on the lab table after an experiment. According to proper lab safety procedures, what should they do?
What is notify the teacher and use the proper tools to clean it up, never their bare hands?
500
A sample has a mass of 2.75 kg. How many grams is this?
What is 2,750 grams?
500
A scientist records a distance as 0.00000072 meters. Write this value in scientific notation
7.2×10^−7
500
On a target, darts are spread far apart but centered around the bullseye. The dart thrower demonstrates this characteristic.
What is accuracy without precision?
500
A car travels at 60 km north. Is this a scalar quantity or a vector quantity?
What is a vector quantity?
Includes both magnitude and direction