Science Lab Rules & Vocabulary Test

Why are approved eye protection devices (such as goggles) are worn in the lab?

• To improve your vision

• To make you look like a bug

• To give you headaches

• To protect eyes around chemicals, heat, or glassware

If a lab fire erupts, immediately:

• Notify (or tell) your teacher

• Run and scream

• Throw water at the fire

• Open the windows

During a lab, if glass breaks or is chipped, you should

• pick it up

• tell your lab partner to clean up the glass

• tell your teacher right away

• keep using the broken glassware

After completing an experiment, all chemical wastes should be

• left at your lab station for the next class

• disposed of according to your teacher's directions

• dumped in the sink

• taken home

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

The following activity is permitted in the laboratory

• chewing gum

• eating

• drinking

• None of the above

Which of the following should NOT be worn during a laboratory activity?

• loose clothing

• dangling jewelry

• sandals

• All of the above

Disrupting other students in the laboratory with horseplay in the lab is:

• helpful

• allowed

• dangerous

• the quickest way to do a job.

A group of 4th graders was dissecting a flower. One ate a petal and dared another to do so too. What safety rule is being broken?

• Never eat, drink, or sniff anything in a science investigation

• Tie back your hair

• Keep your work area clean

• dispose of extra supplies in designated containers

When smelling a liquid you should

• inhale deeply

• waft the odor toward you

• use a fan

• pour it on the table

When should you tie back long hair or baggy clothing?

• When working with chemicals

• When working with a Bunsen burner

• When doing dissections

• Any time you are working in the lab