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Science Laboratory Safety Test Year 7
Name: _______________________ Class:____ Week. ____ Date: _______
1. What do these safety symbols mean? Write down the name or
explain in your own words.
2. You are walking back to your bench with your lab materials. You slip on a wet
spot on the floor, and your lab materials spill on your classmate. Her clothes get
wet, and she says that her leg is starting to hurt and burn.
A. What steps do you follow?
B. How could this have been prevented?
3a. You’re working at your bench with a lit bunsen burner. A neighbouring group
spills flammable alcohol on the table. What steps should you follow?
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b. What should the group that spilled the alcohol do?
c. Unfortunately the alcohol does catch on fire. What should you do now?
4. You are using a bunsen burner to boil water and it is taking a long time for the
water to boil. Should you:
a. Turn the bunsen burner up to boil the water faster
b. Turn the bunsen burner down
c. Ask the teacher if its safe to change the bunsen burner
5. You take the solutions bottle from a group to get your materials and realize
your hand has gotten chemical on it. What should you do?
6. How should you smell a chemical? You can draw your answer
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