Lab Safety and Equipment

Pre-Lab Safety

100

What piece of lab safety equipment do you use if a chemical gets on your skin?

What is the safety shower?

200

According to our safety contract, test tubes that are being heated should always be pointed: 

What is at the wall or away from others?

300

These two items must be worn to protect our clothes and skin from chemicals?

What are aprons and gloves?

400

This type of shoe should not be worn on lab days.

What are opened-toed shoes?

500

These are important to wear to protect our eyes during a lab.

What are safety goggles?

Classroom Safety Equipment

100

This piece of safety equipment is used to cover someone if their clothing would catch on fire during a lab.

What is a fire blanket?

200

This is the first person that should be made aware of any mishaps or accidents during a lab.

What is the teacher?

300

This piece of safety equipment contains material to treat minor injuries.

What is a first aid kit?

400

This piece of safety equipment is used only by the teacher in case of a fire during a lab to put out the fire.

What is a fire extinguisher?

500

This piece of safety equipment is used when debris (small particles) get in your eyes.

What is an eyewash station?

Good or Bad Behavior in the lab?

100

Student A is using a wafting technique to detect the scent of an unknown liquid substance.

What is a good behavior?

200

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? (The teacher did not tell them to start)

300

Student C is wearing goggles and an apron while reaching across a hot plate to unplug it.

What is bad behavior? (no gloves and reaching across the burner)

400

Student B is wearing safety goggles and an apron while working with baking soda and vinegar during a lab.

What is good behavior?

500

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!)

Lab Equipment

100

What glass container with side markings holds large amounts of powdered or liquid chemicals during a lab? (An estimated amount)

What is a beaker?

200

What measurement tools measure length/distance and temperature?

What is a ruler and a thermometer?

300

What two pieces of equipment will be needed to observe extremely small specimens?  (The viewing tool itself and the glass platform for the specimen). 

What is a Microscope and Slide?

400

The piece of equipment used to find the volume of an irregular solid?

What is a graduated cylinder?

500

What two pieces of equipment do we need to transfer a measured amount of liquid chemical and a larger amount of powdered chemical neatly into a narrow mouthed container?

What is a pipette and a funnel?

Lab Equipment

100

This piece of lab equipment is used to measure a specific volume of liquids during a lab.

What is a graduated cylinder?

200

This piece of lab equipment is used to measure mass. 

What is a balance?

300

This piece of equipment is used to deliver an evenly controlled amount of heat to a substance. 

What is a hot plate?

400

This piece of lab equipment is used to deliver an open flame to heat a substance. 

What is a Bunsen/Fischer Burner?

500

This piece of equipment is used to hold small amounts of chemicals during labs.

What is a test tube?