Lab Safety
This piece of lab equipment is used to measure volume of liquids during a lab.
What is a graduated cylinder?
The scientific unit for weight.
What is a gram?
This piece of safety equipment is used in case something catches on fire during a lab.
What is a fire extinguisher?
Student B is wearing safety goggles and an apron while working with chemicals during a lab.
What is good behavior?
This piece of lab equipment is used to measure weight.
What is a balance or scale?
The scientific unit for length.
What is a meter?
This piece of safety equipment is used to get large amounts of chemicals off your skin and clothes.
What is a safety shower?
Student C is wearing goggles while reaching across a hot plate to unplug it.
What is bad behavior? (reaching across the burner)
This piece of equipment is used to see things on a cellular level.
What is a microscope?
This variable goes on the X-axis of a graph.
What is the independent variable?
Student D is picking up broken glass from a beaker that was dropped on the floor with their hands.
What is bad behavior? (Use a broom)
This piece of equipment holds small amounts of liquids in a cylinder shape.
What is a test tube?
This variable goes on the Y-axis of a graph.
What is the dependent variable?
This hair product can be dangerous during a lab with an open flame.
What is hair spray?
Student E sits down at the lab table and immediately begins to read the lab directions and mixing unknown chemicals as indicated by the directions.
What is bad behavior? (they don't know the chemicals)
This piece of lab equipment is used to grow bacteria.
What is a Petri Dish?
The variable that needs to be kept the same through the trials.
What is the control variable?