Lab Safety Quiz

Flammable materials, like alcohol, should never be

dispensed or used near

• An open door

• An open flame

• Another student

• A sink

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

If a laboratory fire erupts, immediately

• Notify your instructor

• Run for the fire extinguisher

• Throw water on the fire

• Open the windows

Approved eye protection devices (such as goggles) are

worn in the laboratory

• To avoid eye strain

• To improve your vision

• Only if you don't have corrective glasses

• Any time chemicals, heat, or glassware are being used

If you wear contact lenses in the school laboratory,

• Take them out before starting the lab

• You do not have to wear protective goggles

• Advise your science instructor that you wear

  contact lenses

• Keep the information to yourself

If you do not understand a direction or part of a lab

procedure, you should

• Figure it out as you go through the lab

• Try several methods until something works

• Ask the instructor before proceeding

• Just skip it and move on

After completing an experiment, all chemical wastes

should be

• Left at the lab station for the next class

• Disposed of according to your teachers instructions

• Dumped in the sink

• Taken home

If a lab experiment is not completed, you should

• Discuss the issue with your teacher

• Sneak back in after school and finish

• Come back at lunch to finish

• Just make up some results

You are heating a substance in a test tube. Always

point the open end of the tube

• Toward yourself

• Toward your lab partner

• Toward another classmate

• Away from everyone possible

You are heating a piece of glass and now want to pick

it up. You should

• Use a rag or paper towel

• Pick it up at the end that looks cooler

• Use tongs

• Run it under cold water to cool it off first

You have been injured in the laboratory (cut, burn,

etc.). First you should

• Visit the school nurse after school

• Go to the doctors later

• Tell your teacher at once

• Apply first aid to yourself