Volcanoes/Volcanic minerals/Quiz

Volcanic minerals is a lecture about minerals that occur in, on, around and between volcanic rocks. It is a volcanoes lecture offered by the radiation astronomy department and the school of geology.

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1 Yes or No, Forsterite is associated with igneous and metamorphic rocks and has also been found in meteorites.

	Yes
	No

2 Which chemical phenomenon are associated with the Earth?

	quartz is the second most abundant mineral
	an atmosphere containing CO₂
	green, red, blue, and yellow airglow
	the production and escape of hot H⁺ ions
	oxygen emissions
	helium ions

3 Yes or No, The pyroxenes are a group of important rock-forming inosilicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks.

	Yes
	No

4 With respect to protoplanetary disks what green mineral has been found?

5 True or False, Coesite and stishovite can only be formed by intense pressure, but moderate temperatures.

	TRUE
	FALSE

6 Observations of Io have benefited greatly from what phenomenon?

	a dense, opaque atmosphere
	lightning
	extensive meteorite cratering
	a flattening out
	liquid hydrocarbon lakes
	the reflected light of allotropes and compounds of sulfur

7 Moldavite is a mineral that may be associated with what green astronomy phenomenon?

	predicting the end of the Earth
	determine the accuracy of local computers
	meteorite impacts
	demonstrating that Venus was once a comet
	predict when currently dormant volcanoes will erupt
	green fireballs

8 Which of the following are associated with greenstone belts?

	metamorphosed mafic sequences
	ultramafic volcanic sequences
	Archaean and Proterozoic cratons
	chlorite
	Humphreys series
	Rydberg series
	green hue of metamorphic minerals

9 True or False, A plume of water ice particles emanating from Enceladus is reaching altitudes as high as 400 km above the surface.

	TRUE
	FALSE

10 A terrestrial planet is composed primarily of?

11 True or False, The XRS aboard the MESSENGER spacecraft maps mineral composition.

	TRUE
	FALSE

12 Complete the text:

At its effective temperature of 1250 K, the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet 51 Pegasus B has clouds composed of

and

13 Yes or No, Fluorapatite occurs widely as an accessory mineral in igneous rocks and in calcium rich metamorphic rocks.

	Yes
	No

14 Soil samples from the mare of the Moon reflect primarily cyan due to the presence in the soils of what?

15 Yes or No, Tanzanite is found only in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro.

	Yes
	No

16 Phenomena associated with some meteorites?

	have a gaseous surface
	long nickel-iron crystals
	octahedrite
	kamacite
	taenite
	plessite

17 Yes or No, Blueschist is a metavolcanic rock that forms by the metamorphism of basalt and rocks.

	Yes
	No

18 Purpurite is a natural mineral pigment composed of what likely source of violet or purple?

19 Yes or No, Hauyne, haüyne or hauynite occurs in Vesuvian lavas in Monte Somma, Italy.

	Yes
	No

20 True or False, Cubanite occurs in high temperature hydrothermal deposits with pyrrhotite and pentlandite as intergrowths with chalcopyrite.

	TRUE
	FALSE

21 Red ochre is a natural pigment composed of what likely source of red?

22 Yes or No, Microlite is a mineral in the pyrochlore group that occurs in pegmatites and constitutes an ore of tantalum.

	Yes
	No

23 Which of the following is involved in planetary astronomy more so than planetary science?

	the occurrence of cyan rock types on the surface of rocky objects
	the Earth and other rocky objects have a cyan mineral containing mantle
	checking equations about complex systems
	the advantages of a 490 nm band pass
	digging holes in the surface of the Moon
	surface temperatures low enough to produce methane lakes

24 Yes or No, Orpiment is an orange to yellow mineral that is found worldwide on Earth, and occurs as a sublimation product in volcanic fumaroles, low temperature hydrothermal veins, hot springs and as a byproduct of the decay of another arsenic mineral, realgar.

	Yes
	No

25 Silicates occur as part of the rocky surface beneath a visually opaque cloud layer on what planet?

26 Orpiment is a natural mineral pigment composed of what likely source of orange?

27 True or False, Optical reflectance studies of Mercury provide evidence for Mg silicates.

	TRUE
	FALSE

28 Which of the following are radiation astronomy phenomena associated with the apparent liquid-object Earth?

	rain
	snow
	hail
	neutron emission
	polar coronal holes
	meteor emission
	rotation

29 True or False, Water ice has been detected on the surface of an asteroid.

	TRUE
	FALSE

30 Which of the following is not a radiation phenomenon associated with a crater?

	strata
	elongated dust particles
	high albedo
	olivine
	Rayleighs
	volcanoes

31 Yes or No, Breithauptite occurs in hydrothermal calcite veins associated with cobalt–nickel–silver ores.

	Yes
	No

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Most of the colorful minerals found on Earth do not seem to occur anywhere else.

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