Science Lab
What do we use to heat experiments?
Bunsen Burner
Seawater is a solution, what is the solvent?
Water
What do we wash our hands?
What is the technical name for a push or pull?
Force
What kind of process can make a valley?
Erosion or plate faults
What is the name of the glassware shaped like a volcano?
Conical flask
What might you use to separate a mixture of iron filings and sand?
A magnet
Is covid a bacteria or a virus?
Virus
Which force opposes surfaces sliding past each other?
Friction
A rock formed under heat and pressure. What is it now?
Metamorphic
How are you meant to mix substances in a test tube?
By the finger tapping and swirling method.
What is filtration?
When you pass a mixture through a material to separate out the little particles.
What is Edward Jenner famous for?
Creating the first vaccination.
What do unbalanced forces cause?
Acceleration or deformation
I find a rock with sand grains of different colours arranged in layers. What is it?
sandstone/ sedimentary
How are you meant to smell substances from a test tube?
By wafting with your hand.
How can you separate salt and water?
Evaporation
What is the name of the person who dispelled the idea of spontaneous generation?
Louis Pasteur
List three non-contact forces
Gravitational force, magnetic force, electric force
I have a grey, bubbly igneous rock that floats. What is it?
Pumice
What is the little s-shaped device which screws to a retort stand?
Bosshead
Explain how chromatography works.
A solvent attaches to the ink molecules, and carries them though a medium (usually paper) at different rates for different colours, separating the colours.
Why have there been less flu deaths this year?
Because of anti-covid measures.
If an object is moving with a constant speed, does it have an unbalanced force acting on it?
No
Explain how a reverse fault looks.
One plate rides up over another one.