General Knowledge
A natural hollow space under the ground large enough for a person to enter.
What is a cave?
The type of rock where solution caves form.
What is limestone?
Name a species of animal that can live in a cave. (Multiple answers accepted, same number of points regardless)
What are insects, salamanders, bats, or mammals (bears, foxes, etc)
Name the three types of rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?
Exploring a cave is called...
What is caving, potholing, or spelunking?
Another word for large caves?
What are caverns?
An unusually hot material where a cave can form.
What is lava? (Volcano, magma accepted)
Special characteristics that help cave animals survive.
What are adaptations?
How igneous rocks are formed.
What is cooled magma?
Name the common colors used in cave paintings.
What is red or black pigments? (red or black accepted)
The most common type of cave.
A cave formed by the motion of the ocean.
What is a sea cave?
A shared trait between cave dwelling creatures. (From Wednesday!)
What is a lack of eyes?
Where sedimentary rocks are generally found.
What is the ocean floor?
Name an animal found in a cave painting in Europe (multiple answers accepted)
What are wooly mammoths, oxen, deer, horses, or lions?
Mineral deposits that hang from the ceiling, or rise from the floor.
What are stalactites and stalagmites?
The large, moving home of an ice cave.
What is a glacier?
The word used to describe an animal that is active at night, not during the day.
What is nocturnal?
The type of rock that sandstone and coal are.
What is sedimentary rocks?
The location of the world's largest cave system.
Human cave explorers (not cavers)
What are spelunkers?
Another type of rock where caves can form (Multiple answers can apply, think back to Monday)
What bats use to see in the dark.
What is echolocation?
The process of changing from one rock form to another.
What is metamorphism?
The study of caves.
What is speleology?