General Knowledge
Why are goggles worn in the science lab?
To protect your eyes.
This piece of safety equipment is used to cover someone if their clothing catches on fire during a lab
What is a fire blanket?
A student is using a wafting technique to detect the scent of an unknown liquid substance.
What is a good behavior?
This should be done to long hair when working with an open flame.
What is tie hair back?
True or False: You may have food and/or drinks in the lab as long as you keep them in the original container.
False.
This type of equipment is used to put out fires on things that aren't living.
What is a fire extinguisher?
Student B is wearing safety goggles, gloves and an apron while working with vinegar and baking soda during a lab.
What is a good behavior?
This type of shoe should not be worn on lab days.
What is open toe shoes?
How should you test for odors?
Waft (fan the fumes toward your nose).
This piece of safety equipment is used when chemicals get in your eyes.
What is an eye wash?
Student C is wearing goggles while reaching across a hot plate to unplug it.
What is bad behavior? (Reaching across the burner is unsafe)
This item is worn to protect our clothes.
What is an apron?
What is the first thing to do if something goes wrong in the lab?
Tell the teacher
This is the first person that should be made aware of any mishaps or accidents during a lab.
What is the teacher?
Student D is wearing goggles and gloves while picking up broken glass from a beaker that was dropped on the floor.
What is bad behavior? (Tell the teacher so she can clean up the broken glass.)
Where broken glass should be not be disposed of.
What is the trash can? (Broken glass goes in a special container)
What action will you take when the teacher raises her hand?
I'll stop talking and raise my hand, too.
This piece of equipment is used to kill germs on goggles.
What is the goggle sterilizer?
Student E sits down at the lab table and immediately begins to mix unknown chemicals as indicated by the directions.
What is bad behavior? (Never perform unauthorized experiments.)
You should do this after you are finished with the lab.
What is clean the lab station.