U5 Assignment “Lab Equipment”

Fill in the table with the name of the equipment in the picture, and write a sentence or two about its
use. You can find the table in a Microsoft Word file you can download, fill in, and upload back to
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Picture Name Use

Magnet Pulls some metal and

magnetic things.
1.

Syringe For transferring liquids

to another place.
2.

Petri dish If you do an experiment

you put it in it and leave
it somewhere and close
3.
it, because the gas
would disappear from
it.

Microscope It can scope little items

that are too small to
see by eye.

4.

slide To place a small

organism on it and
5. place it under the
microscope to see it
bigger.
 Funnel To pour liquids in to
each other.
6.

Filter paper If you have a dirty liquid

to change it place a
filter paper in a funnel
7.
to filter water from it.

Mortar with a pestle It is used the same way

as in the kitchen to
8. grind spices.

Crucible It is used for extremely

hot heating and it is
9. made out of porcelain.

Tongs To pick up things that

can’t be took by hands.
10.

Retort The retort is another

container for heating it
11. is used for a process
called distillation

Burner To heat items in

science.
12.
 Tripod with gauze mat If you do not want to
hold the item that gets
13. heated by the burner
you can use it.

Flask It is used for heating

chemicals in it.
14.

Test tube rack with test A holder that keeps the

tubes and stoppers test tubes standing so
15. they does not fall and
spill on the ground.

Graduated cylinder If you need a precise

volume of liquid you
can use it.
16.

Burette with stand and This is also for

clamp measuring the amount
of liquid you put in it. It
17. tells you exactly how
many liquid is in there.

Dropper It is also for transferring

some sorts of liquids.
18.

Spatula It is for transferring

solids.
19.
 Pipette For transferring small
amount of liquid.
20.