Lab Safety Rules
This piece of protective equipment shields your eyes from chemicals and glass.
What are safety googles?
A scientist should use this technique instead of directly smelling a chemical to avoid inhaling harmful fumes.
What is wafting?
The standard unit for mass.
What is a gram (g)?
If a chemical spill occurs on your skin, these are the first actions you should take.
What is notify the teacher and rinse the are with water?
If glassware breaks during a lab, this is the appropriate action to take.
What is inform your teacher?
This piece of lab equipment is used to measure mass.
What is a scale or a balance?
Smaller distances are measured in these standard units.
What is a millimeter (mm), a centimeter (cm), and a meter (m)?
This should be not be done to prevent accidental contamination or ingestion of harmful substances.
What is eating and drinking in the lab?
Unused chemicals should never be returned to their original containers for this reason.
What is to prevent contamination?
This piece of equipment is used to measure distance.
What is a ruler?
Liquid volume is commonly measured using these metric units.
What is a milliliter (mL) and a liter (L)?
These are the reasons why long hair must be tied back during a lab activity.
What is to prevent it from catching fire or getting into chemicals?
If your clothing catches fire in the lab, you should NOT run. Instead, you should do this.
What is stop, drop, and roll?
A scientist would use this tool to transfer very small amounts of liquid drop by drop.
What is a pipette?
There are this many millimeters in one centimeter.
What is 10?
This is the first thing you should do in the event of a fire in the lab.
What is alert your teacher immediately?
Before beginning an experiment, you must do this first.
What is read the lab instructions carefully?
This common glass container is use for holding, mixing, and heating substances but is not the most precise for measuring volume.
What is a beaker?
One liter is equivalent to this many milliliters.
What is 1000mL?