Laboratory safety and equipment

Long hair in a lab must always be

• Cut short
• Held away from the experiment with one hand.
• Clean and neatly groomed
• Kept completely out of the way.

What should you always do after you have completed a lab?

• Write your lab report.
• Clean the laboratory material you used and put them away.
• Leave your material out for the next class.
• Throw all materials away.

What should you do first if there is an accident and something breaks during a lab?

• Carefully clean up the mess.
• Warn your classmates that something broke.
• Tell the teacher
• Finish your experiments

Which activity is allowed in a laboratory

• Eating
• Drinking
• Chewing gum
• None of the above

This is a picture of a

• Flask
• Triple Beam Balance
• Beaker
• Meter Stick

This is a picture of a

• Welding glasses
• Bifocal eyewear
• Safety Glasses
• Sunglasses

This is a picture of a

• Beaker

• Graduated Cylinder

• Test tube

• Conical Flask

You are heating a substance in a test tube. Always point the open end of the tube 

• away from all people
• toward another classmate
• toward your lab partner
• toward yourself

Report any accident or injury to the teacher _______________, no matter how small it may appear

• at the end of the period
• immediately
• eventually
• after you get the situation under control

The proper technique for smelling chemicals is ______________

• Keeping your nose close to the glassware
• WAFT it toward your nose
• to sniff only a small amount
• Trick question; you never are allowed to smell chemicals in class