Hematite MCQs

 

Hematite: Interactive MCQ Quiz

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1. How does hematite usually occur, according to the book?

As transparent green prisms
As soft, colorless layers
As massive, opaque material with metallic luster
As blue botryoidal masses

2. What color does the book say hematite shows when cut into thin slices?

Blood red
Bright blue
Emerald green
Golden yellow

3. Which crystal form of hematite is also mentioned?

Long, colorless hexagonal prisms
Pink, curved-faced crystals
Green tabular plates
Short, black, rhombohedral crystals

4. What surface effect may hematite crystals show?

A permanent blue coating
Iridescence
A cat’s-eye band
A six-rayed star

5. What is a flower-petal arrangement of hematite crystals called?

An iron rose
Inca rose
Iceland spar
Bonamite

6. Why does the book call some shiny crystals “specular” hematite?

They resemble flower petals
They were used to make pigment only
The name reflects their traditional use in mirrors
They are found only in specular caves

7. Where does the book place some of hematite’s main deposits?

In limestone caves in Italy and Switzerland
In pegmatites in Brazil and Colorado only
In copper deposits in Namibia and Chile
In igneous rocks near Lake Superior, and in Quebec, Brazil, Venezuela, and England

8. Where does the book say iron roses are found?

Namibia and Zambia
Switzerland and Brazil
Thailand and Sri Lanka
Australia and Iceland

9. What uses for powdered hematite does the book mention?

Artist’s pigment or polishing
Making glass and electrical wire
Producing jewelry settings only
Building cave formations

10. Which set of properties matches hematite in the book’s table?

Trigonal, manganese carbonate, hardness 4
Trigonal, zinc carbonate, hardness 5
Trigonal, iron oxide, hardness 6½
Trigonal, calcium carbonate, hardness 3