Vocab
Where is the location of our severe storm/tornado shelter?
What is the "Fitness Room?"
A tool used to measure out a very specific volume (like 20mL) is called a:
What is a graduated cylinder?
This is what the scientist thinks is going to happen. It is a possible solution to the problem that they are investigating.
What is a hypothesis
Dr. Laura gives 30 people an antibiotic and gives 30 people a placebo. What is the experimental group?
What is the "group getting the antibiotic?"
A person's sleeve catches fire while doing a lab in your science classroom. They are in a panic and waving their arms wildly. What is one immediate thing you should do?
What is "Direct them to stop drop and roll"
What is "Grab the fire blanket and wrap it around them"
To measure the mass of an object like a hunk of clay, you would use a:
What is a Balance (electric or triple-beam)?
A scientist measures a solution and finds the volume to be 27 mL. What type of observation has she made?
What is a Quantitative Observation?
You forgot to put your safety goggles on before getting to the lab bench and a lab group member has dropped a beaker of chemical which has splashed in your eye. Where will you go and for how long?
What is the "eye wash station" and what is 20 minutes.
This piece of lab equipment allows for more even heating compared with a bunsen burner. It uses electricity instead of gas.
What is a hot plate?
This is the variable that scientists purposely change in an experiment.
What is the independent variable (IV)
Often, when you give a fake treatment to some subjects in your experiment, they report feeling better and even show physical improvement. What is this called?
What is the placebo effect?
What does the acronym P.A.S.S. stand for when it comes to extinguishing fires?
What is "Pull the Pin, Aim the nozzle at the base of the fire, Squeeze the handle, Sweep back and forth?"
Small cylindrical glassware that have no markings and can hold small amounts of chemicals are called:
What are test tubes?
A student is sitting outside and hears a noise that sounded like rustling leaves. The student thinks a deer is running in the nearby woods. Which is the student's observation and which is the student's inference?
Observation: hears a noise that sounded like rustling leaves
Inference: a deer is running in the nearby woods.
Eric is investigating the effect of sleeping on test scores. He has 30 students take a test after sleeping 5 hours, 8 hours, and 10 hours. Which label (test scores or hours slept) should Eric put in the first heading of his data table?
What is "Hours Slept?"
Jake wants to see how longer running distances affects a person's heart rate. Jake has the person run .5 miles, 1 mile, and 1.5 miles and then measures his/her heart rate. A possible control group for this experiment could be:
Measure the heartrate of the person at rest (no exercise).
A lab member has spilled a chemical at your lab station. Everyone is safely goggled.
What should he/she do? Should they clean it up?
What is "tell the teacher immediately" and "yes, with instruction".
Similar to a Bunsen Burner, this slightly taller, open-flame tool was used in our pop can lab and is called a:
What is a Fischer Burner?