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WorksheetsScience Basics Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A team of students is performing an experiment with acid. When finished, they clean up and pour the acid down the sink. Which lab safety rule did they break?
a)
Goggles
b)
Clean up messes immediately
c)
Proper disposal of poison
d)
No horseplay
2.
A group of students designs an experiment with paper airplanes. They design the airplanes, test them to make sure they work, and then run the experiment. Which lab safety rule was broken?
a)
Better safe than sorry
b)
No horseplay
c)
Smelling chemicals
d)
Goggles
3.
A student places a sharp object on the chair of another student during a lab activity, making sure no one notices. Later, the other student sits down and jumps back up, hurt and yelling. What rule was broken?
a)
Fire
b)
No horseplay
c)
No food
d)
Better safe than sorry
4.
A student is on her phone and walks to a different group to show pictures to her friends. Her group is not there when she returns, so she goes back to her friend's group instead.
a)
No horseplay
b)
Clean up messes immediately
c)
Goggles
d)
Better safe than sorry
5.
A student is doing an experiment with baking soda and vinegar. When it mixes, it explodes and goes into her eyes. What should she do?
a)
Tell the teacher
b)
Use the eyewash for 15 minutes
c)
Use goggles
d)
All of the above
6.
Students are designing a model roller coaster to test how speed is affected by the steepness of the slopes. Which Crosscutting Concepts most apply?
a)
Cause and Effect, Energy and Matter, and Systems and System Models
b)
Patterns, Stability and Change
c)
Cause and Effect, Patterns, Energy and Matter
d)
Scale, Proportion & Quantity, Stability and Change
7.
The teacher asks students to create a cell using materials found around the house. The cell must have all of the parts labeled. Which Crosscutting Concept is MOST used?
a)
Scale, Proportion and Quantity
b)
Energy and Matter
c)
Systems and System Models
d)
Patterns
8.
Which of the following would MOST use the Science and Engineering Practice "Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information"
a)
A group presentation on adaptations of owls.
b)
Reading an article about air pollution.
c)
A presentation analyzing a scientific study about changing owl habitats.
d)
A drawing showing an owl's digestive system.
9.
Which would be the best question if you wanted to understand what might be the most effective paper airplane design?
a)
What time does it take a paper airplane to fly?
b)
What design factors affect the flight of a paper airplane?
c)
How many different paper airplane designs are there?
d)
All of the above
10.
The class motto for science is "Assume Nothing." This means we use observation and evidence to question everything! Which Science and Engineering Practice most fits this motto?
a)
Developing and using models
b)
Planning and carrying out investigations
c)
Using math and computational thinking
d)
Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information
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