Review for Lab Safety Quiz

If a fire erupts, you should immediately:

• notify the teacher

• 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 improve your vision

• to avoid eye strain

• anytime chemicals, heat, or glassware are used

• only if you do not have corrective glasses

If you do not understand a direction or part of a laboratory procedure, you should...

• figure it out as you do the lab.

• ask the teacher before proceeding.

• try several methods until something works.

• skip it and go on to the next part.

After completing an experiment, all chemical wastes should be...

• dumped in the sink.

• left at your lab station for the next class.

• disposed of according to your teacher's directions.

• taken home.

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

You have been injured in the laboratory (cut, burned, etc.).  First, you should...

• tell the teacher at once.

• apply first aid yourself.

• see a doctor after school.

• visit the school nurse after class.

Long hair in the laboratory must be...

• always neatly groomed.

• cut short.

• Held away from the experiment with one hand.

• tied back or kept entirely out of the way with a hair band, etc.

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

• untied back long hair

• dangling jewelry

• loose clothing

• all of these answers listed

Horseplay, practical jokes, or pranks in the classroom are...

• always against the rules.

• okay.

• not dangerous.

• okay if you are working alone.

When handling animals, students should...

• open cages ONLY with permission.

• not tease or handle animals roughly.

• report bites or scratches to the teacher immediately.

• all of these answers are correct.

If a piece of equipment is not working properly, stop, turn it off, and tell...

• the teacher.

• the principal.

• your lab partner.

• your best friend in the class.