Minerals
Species
Inside
Formation
Bats
100
mineral rich deposits that build up from cavern floors
What are stalagmites
100
Bats, insects and hibernating mammals.
Name three types of animals that may live in caves.
100
A space created when hot lava melts rock.
What is a lava tube?
100
The name of water coming from the ocean, which sometimes forms caves.
What are tidal waters?
100
There are many species that can eat thousands of mosquitoes and crop destroying insects in an evening.
How do bats help people?
200
Mineral deposits that are formed on the ceiling of caves
What are stalactites?
200
Loss of eyesight, loss of color, and developing special senses.
What are the adaptations cave animals use to live in their homes?
200
An animal species that lives both in caves and above the ground.
What is a troglophile?
200
Bats, some fish, and cave swallows are a few.
Name three troglobites.
200
Bats help some plants to pollinate their flowers or spread their seeds.
What is one way bats help the environment?
300
Cave formations created by mineral rich water dripping underground.
What are stalactites and stalagmites?
300
A cave formed as melting ice creates a flow of water within a glacier.
What is a glacier cave?
300
In caves they are always the same.
What are temperature and humidity?
300
Someone who studies caves.
What is a speleologist?
300
The sometimes mushroom-shaped formations that grow up from the floor, usually from the water that drips off the end of stalactites.
What are stalagmites?
400
A natural, hollow place, under the ground, large enough for a human to enter.
What is a cave?
400
Voronya Cave in Georgia, at 2,197 m (7,208 ft).
What is the deepest known cave?
400
A speleothem (or stalactite) in the shape of a hollow, cylindrical tube.
What is a soda straw?
400
A soft, sedimentary rock.
What is limestone?
400
The icicle-shaped formations formed as water drips from the cave roof.
What are stalactites?
500
A space formed when acidic water runs over soft rock such as limestone.
What is a cave?
500
These large underground chambers can take hundreds of thousands of years to form.
What are caves?
500
A rare form of gooey, dangling, toxic bacteria.
What is a snottite or snotcicle?
500
Caving, potholing, or spelunking.
What is the hobby of exploring caves called?
500
Sheets of calcite growths on cave walls and floors.
What are flowstones?
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