Lab Safety
This piece of equipment protects your eyes from chemicals and broken glass.
What is Safety Glasses?
This basic quantity describes how fast an object is moving.
What is speed?
A substance made of only one type of atom is called this.
What is an element?
These basic units of life make up all living things.
What are cells?
This is the name for a full orbit of Earth around the Sun.
What is a year?
This Australian state is known as the “Sunshine State.”
What is Queensland?
This safety step is required before heating a test tube to prevent pressure build-up.
What is pointing the test tube away and removing the stopper?
This force acts opposite to motion and increases on rough surfaces.
What is friction?
This term describes a mixture where one substance dissolves in another.
What is a solution?
An organism that makes its own food from sunlight is called this.
What is a producer?
These are the two factors that keep planets in orbit around stars.
(Double points for both correct)
What is Gravity and Inertia?
This number of degrees makes a right angle.
What is 90?
This item must stay on the bench and never in your pocket because it could damage your skin or clothing.
What is chemicals and chemical bottles?
This type of energy is stored in objects because of their height above the ground.
What is gravitational potential energy?
This part of the atom has a positive charge and is found in the nucleus.
What is a proton?
This process in plants moves water from the roots to the leaves through the xylem.
What is transpiration?
This Moon phase occurs when the Moon is fully lit from Earth’s point of view.
What is a full moon?
This large organ filters blood and produces urine.
What is the Kidney?
This colour flame on a Bunsen burner is safest for heating because it is hottest and steady.
What is Blue flame?
This term describes the amount of energy an appliance uses every second, measured in watts.
What is power?
This chemical reaction occurs when a substance combines with oxygen and releases heat and light.
What is combustion?
This type of reproduction involves only one parent and produces genetically identical offspring.
What is asexual reproduction?
This event happens when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
This is the only planet in our solar system that rotates on its side.
What is Uranus?
This rule explains why you never pour chemicals back into the stock bottle.
What is avoiding contamination?
This property of a material describes how well it allows electricity to pass through it.
What is conductivity?
This separation technique uses boiling points to separate liquids.
What is distillation?
This term describes all the living and non-living things that interact in a particular environment.
What is an ecosystem?
This term describes the path an object follows as it moves around a star, planet, or moon.
What is an orbit?
This scientific term means an educated prediction that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?