Lodestones
Found, not invented.
Naturally occurring magnets, discovered in ancient times. The magnets old sailors used were based on them.
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Exploring Magnets — Class 6 Science — Curiosity
English 4 topics 116 leveled MCQs 60 flashcards 5 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Artificial magnets
Made rather than found.
The ones in a laboratory, a pencil box, a sticker or a toy. Artificial means made, not fake.
Shapes of magnet
Three to name.
A bar magnet, straight. A U-shaped magnet, bent so both ends face one way. A ring magnet, round with a hole.
The iron filings test
Make the pull visible.
Spread very small pieces of iron on paper, lay a bar magnet over them and tap. The pattern is the result.
What the filings show
Ends crowded, middle bare.
Most gather near the two ends of the bar. Very few stick to the long stretch between them.
Poles
The two ends have names.
They are the poles of the magnet, one North and one South. A magnet is not uniformly magnetic.
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1
Magnets, and What They Pull
The first magnets were stones found in the ground. Today they are made, in bars, rings and U shapes, and they pull some materials strongly while ignoring the rest altogether.
- Lodestones are magnets that occur in the ground, and they were known in ancient times.
- People later worked out how to make a magnet out of a piece of iron.
- Magnets in a school laboratory, a pencil box, a sticker or a toy are all artificial magnets.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Poles: Always Two, Never One
Iron filings pile up at the ends of a magnet and hardly anywhere else. Those ends are its poles, and no matter how small you break a magnet, it never has fewer than two of them.
- Iron filings are very small pieces of iron, and they make the pull of a magnet visible.
- The greatest number of filings stick near the ends of a bar magnet.
- Very few filings stick to the rest of the magnet, between the two ends.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Finding Directions
Hang a magnet so it can turn freely and it always settles the same way, pointing north and south, because the Earth is itself one enormous magnet. A compass is that fact built into a small box.
- Hung so that it turns freely, a magnet settles along the line running north to south.
- The end pointing north is the North-seeking pole, or North pole; the other is the South pole.
- It settles that way because the Earth is itself one enormous magnet.
~35 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
4
Attraction, Repulsion, and Taking Care
Bring two magnets together and sometimes they pull and sometimes they push. Only a magnet can push another magnet away, which makes repulsion the surest test there is, and the pull works straight through wood, plastic an…
- Unlike poles of two magnets, a North and a South, attract each other.
- Like poles, two Norths or two Souths, repel each other.
- Both ends of an iron bar are attracted by both poles of a magnet.
~35 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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116 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
A magnet that occurs naturally in the ground is called a:
Beginner
A lodestone
B bar magnet
C compass
D filing
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lodestone
The magnets old sailors used were based on these.
Magnets found in a pencil box, a sticker or a toy are:
Beginner
A lodestones
B artificial magnets
C non-magnetic metals
D compasses
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artificial magnets
Artificial here means made rather than found.
Which of these is NOT one of the three magnet shapes named in the chapter?
Beginner
A U-shaped magnet
B Ring magnet
C Cube magnet
D Bar magnet
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Cube magnet
Magnets can take several shapes, but those three are the named ones.
What is the name for a material that a magnet pulls towards itself?
Beginner
A natural materials
B non-magnetic materials
C artificial materials
D magnetic materials
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magnetic materials
The materials that are not attracted get the opposite name.
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