Cave Facts
This national park contains the longest cave system in the world.
What is Mammoth Cave?
Mammoth Cave became a national park in this year.
What is 1941?
This endangered animal lives in Mammoth Cave and uses echolocation.
What is a bat?
Mammoth Cave was formed primarily by the dissolution of this rock.
What is limestone?
Despite its name, Mammoth Cave is NOT named after this animal.
What is a mammoth?
The cave system has over this many miles explored.
What is 400+ miles?
Before it was a park, this resource was mined in the cave during the War of 1812.
What is saltpeter?
This blind, pale fish is adapted to life in the cave.
What is a cavefish?
Water rich in this weak acid helped carve the cave.
What is carbonic acid?
The word “mammoth” actually means this.
What is very large?
The cave maintains this average temperature year-round.
What is about 54°F?
This group of people originally discovered and used the cave thousands of years ago.
Who are Native Americans?
Animals that live exclusively in caves are called this.
What are troglobites?
These formations hang from the ceiling of caves.
What are stalactites?
This river above ground helps drain and shape the cave system.
What is the Green River?
This type of cave system describes Mammoth Cave.
What is a limestone cave system?
This formerly enslaved guide became one of the cave’s most famous early explorers.
Who is Stephen Bishop?
This small crustacean found in caves looks like a shrimp.
What is a cave shrimp?
These formations grow upward from the cave floor.
What are stalagmites?
Visitors explore the cave using guided experiences called this.
What are ranger-led tours?
This underground river flows through Mammoth Cave.
What is the Green River?
Mammoth Cave was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in this year.
What is 1981?
This term describes animals that can live both inside and outside caves.
What are troglophiles?
This process of rock being worn away created Mammoth Cave.
What is erosion (or chemical weathering)?
Mammoth Cave is located in this U.S. state.
What is Kentucky?