Year 7
Safety in Science Quiz
Name: _________________________________
Date: _____________
Class: _______
Check your knowledge of lab safety! Shade the circle for each correct answer.
1. If you break a beaker in the lab, the first thing you should do is:
 Tell your teacher
 Clean up the glass
 Put the broken glass in separate container labelled ‘broken glass’
 Carefully use your hands to pick up the largest pieces
2. When you find an unlabelled bottle of chemicals in the lab, you should:
 Smell it to see what it is
 Ask your teacher
 Waft the chemical
 Pour it down the drain
3. When you complete your lab work, which of the following should you NOT do:
 Clean & return materials to the lab cart
 Try your own experiment
 Turn in all lab work to your teacher
 Return to your own seat
4. Which of the following procedure is incorrect (wrong)?
 Light the Bunsen burner with the air hole open
 Light the Bunsen burner with the air hole closed
 Set up your equipment before lighting the Bunsen burner
 Use the safety flame when not heating your chemicals
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5. What is the most important thing to do before starting a lab?
 Put on safety goggles
 Put on your lab coat
 Pick up your materials from the lab cart
 Read the lab instructions completely
6. When heating liquids in test tubes:
 Always tightly cork the test tube
 Hold the test tube pointing upward
 Hold test tubes at a slant (slope) pointed away from everyone
 None of the above
7. Which of the following is true about dressing in the lab?
 Tie long hair back
 Wear lab coats when directed
 Both the above are correct
 You can wear what you like in the lab
8. Which of the following is correct lab procedure?
 Place heated glassware on countertops away from the edge
 Hold dissecting specimens tightly with your hand when cutting with a scalpel
 Wear gloves when dissecting & dispensing irritating chemicals
 Pour excess chemical back into its original container
9. Which of the following statements is correct?
 Never use cracked glassware
 Wash hands before & after dissecting
 Treat all chemicals as poisonous
 All of the above
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10. What does this symbol mean?
 Corrosive
 Biohazard
 Harmful
 Radiation
11. Name these pieces of equipment:
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