Army Ants
Beauty Unexplained
The Dream of Flight
Dark Descent
Vocabulary
100

Army ants move in groups mainly because of this disability.

What is blindness

100

Scheer's use of this allows us to see the details of moths that we would not be able to with just our eyes.

What are digital tools

100

The idea of man flying has gone as far back as this Greek mythological figure that had man-made wings, but fell straight to the ground after reaching the sun.

Who is Icarus

100

In our story, 50+ Cavers are entering Krubera Cave to reach this deep in meters.

What is 2,000m

100

The act or process of rising, moving, or climbing up.

What is ascend

200

Army ants form different shapes by linking these parts of their body together.

What are their legs

200

Scheer's first moth hunt process meant opening a window and turning this on because moths are attracted to it.

What is the light

200

The dream continued on as this artist, and inventor, created a flying machine that didn't work.

Who is Leonardo Da Vinci

200

This journey has been considered the inverse of climbing this mountain.

What is Mount Everest

200

Something that you need, especially in order to live.

What is a necessity

300

This part of the army ant's body is powerful and shaped like a fishhook.  Its attack is powerful, but causes it to lose its life.

What is the jaw

300

This group of people complained about the amount of moths that invaded the building due to Scheer's method.

Who are the building cleaners

300

Nancy Shute tried hang gliding for one.  It was then recommended that she try hang gliding for two, but is known as this phrase.

What is Tandem Flight

300

Within Krubera Cave, there were many of these passages filled with water.

What are sumps

300

Feeling unhappy because something was not as good as hoped.

What is disappointed

400

Moving in high numbers means that it's easy to kill their food, or this word meaning an animal below another in the food chain.

What is prey

400

Scheer's new hunting process saw him using this person's garden.

Who is Mark Kingensmith

400

One thrill of flight mentioned is jumping off of objects, like bridges and buildings, in a gliding suit.  However, you can get arrested for doing so.

What is BASE Jumping

400

A group of Ukrainian cavers ended up reaching 2.080m and called it this.  Perhap they saw this a lot while playing "Super Mario Bros."

What is "Game Over"

400

Made to feel very excited or happy.

What is exhilarated

500

蟻 is "ant" in Japanese.  One part of this word is translated into this word in English, which means a strong feeling of allegiance.

What is loyalty

500

Since Scheer was using camera film, he had to use this device to get more detail out of the pictures.

What is a scanner

500

Leonardo Da Vinci's flying machine came back to promise with a system with four small engines, and more updates, from this inventor.

Who is Yves Rossy

500

In 2009, this member of the previous 50+ caverners broke the Ukrainians' record, then turned around to beat his own record.

Who is Gennady Samokhin

500

With no time left, we can use this phrase.

What is "out of time"

M
e
n
u