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 teacher

• grab the fire extinguisher

• put on the fire blanket

• run out the building

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

• anytime chemicals, heat and/or glassware are used

If you wear contact lenses in the school laboratory,

• take them out before starting a lab

• you do not have to wear protective glasses

• advise your science instructor that you wear them

• 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

• try several methods until you get it to work

• ask the instructor

• skip it and go to the next part of the lab

After completing an experiment, all chemical wastes should be

• left at your lab station

• exposed of according to the instructor's directions

• taken home

• dumped down the sink

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

If a lab experiment is not completed, you should

• discuss the issue with your instructor

• sneak in after school and work along on it.

• come in during lunch and finish during lunch

• make up the data

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

• toward yourself

• toward your lab partner

• toward the teacher

• away from all people

You are heating a piece of glass and now want to pick it up. You should

• use a rag or a paper towel

• use tongs

• pick up the cooler end

• pour cold water on it first

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

• apply first aid

• go to the doctor

• visit the school nurse after class

• tell the instructor