Lab Safety
This piece of equipment should always be worn to protect your eyes during labs.
What are safety goggles?
The variable that you change in an experiment goes on this axis of a graph.
What is the x-axis?
The metric base unit for length.
What is the meter?
The basic unit of life.
What is the cell?
The first step of the scientific method.
What is asking a question (or making an observation)?
Eating and drinking in the lab is not allowed because of this risk.
What is contamination?
Observations described with words are called this type of data.
What is qualitative data?
The metric base unit for mass.
What is the gram?
Populations of organisms change over long periods of time through this process.
What is evolution (adaptation over time)?
The country that officially uses the metric system (hint: almost all do, except 3).
What is nearly every country except the U.S., Liberia, and Myanmar?
If a chemical gets in your eyes, use this piece of lab equipment immediately.
What is the eyewash station?
A graph that shows change over time is usually this type.
What is a line graph?
This tool gives the most precise measurement of liquid volume.
What is a graduated cylinder?
Organ systems are made up of these smaller structures.
What are organs?
The part of the experiment that stays the same for all groups.
What is a constant (or control variable)?
This is the first thing you should do if an accident or spill happens.
What is tell the teacher?
This term means how close a measurement is to the true or accepted value.
What is accuracy?
The prefix of the largest unit of metrics.
What is kilo-?
The ability of living things to maintain stable internal conditions.
What is homeostasis?
This characteristic of life is demonstrated when a sunflower turns toward sunlight.
What is response to stimuli?
This piece of safety equipment is used if there is an open fire on a table.
What is a fire extinguisher?
A prediction that is made based on a research question.
What is a hypothesis?
This prefix means one-thousandth (0.001).
What is milli-?
The 7 major characteristics of life include reproduction, response to stimuli, energy use, homeostasis, growth and development, evolution, and this one.
What is organization (or being made of cells)?
Ms. Hiapo's favorite candy.
What is Twix?