Lab Safety Rules
Classroom Safety Equipment
Lab Safety Scenarios
Lab Equipment
Measurement
100
This piece of protective equipment shields your eyes from chemicals.
100
This piece of safety equipment is used to cover someone if their clothing catches on fire in a lab.
What is a fire blanket?
100
A scientist should use this technique instead of directly smelling a chemical to avoid inhaling harmful fumes.
What is wafting?
100
This piece of lab equipment is used to measure the volume of liquids.
What is a graduated cylinder?
100
The standard unit for mass.
What is a gram (g)?
200
If a chemical spill occurs on your skin, these are the first actions you should take.
What is notifying the teacher and rinsing the area with water?
200
This piece of safety equipment is only used in the event of a lab fire to extinguish the flames.
What is a fire extinguisher?
200
If glassware breaks during a lab, this is the appropriate action to take.
What is sweeping up broken glass with a broom and dustpan and disposing of it in the broken glass bin?
200
This piece of lab equipment is used to measure mass.
What is a scale or a balance?
200
Smaller distances are measured in these standard units.
What are a millimetre (mm), a centimetre (cm), and a meter (m)?
300
This should not be done to prevent accidental contamination or ingestion of harmful substances.
What is eating and drinking in the lab?
300
This piece of safety equipment contains material to treat minor injuries.
What is a first aid kit?
300
Unused chemicals should never be returned to their original containers for this reason.
What is to prevent contamination?
300
This piece of equipment is used to measure distance.
What is a ruler?
300
Liquid volume is commonly measured using these metric units.
What is a millilitre (mL) and a litre (L)?
400
These are the reasons why long hair must be tied back during laboratory activities.
What is to prevent it from catching fire or getting into chemicals?
400
This piece of safety equipment is used when debris (small particles) gets in your eyes.
What is an eyewash station?
400
If your clothing catches fire in the lab, do not run. Instead, you should do this.
What is stop, drop, and roll?
400
A scientist would use this tool to transfer very small amounts of liquid drop by drop.
What is a pipette?
400
There are this many millimetres in one centimetre.
What is 10mm?
500
This is the first thing you should do in the event of a fire in the lab.
What is alert your teacher immediately?
500
This is the first person who should be notified of any accidents that occur during a lab.
Who is the teacher?
500
Before beginning an experiment, you must do this first.
What is read the lab instructions carefully?
500
This common glass container is used for holding, mixing, and heating substances, but is not the most precise for measuring volume.
What is a beaker?
500
One litre is equivalent to this many millilitres.
What is 1000mL?