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100

What are animals that live permanently in caves called?

Troglobites

100

What Texas commercial Cave was broken into where people took a bat to the formations in 1993?

Cave Without a Name

100

What age and formation are most common for caves found here in Texas?

Edwards Plateau Cretaceous Limestone

100

What do you do if a rock falls in the cave?

Yell ROCK!

100

What is the deepest cave in Texas?

Sorcerer's Cave in Terrell County

200

The biggest food source for cave insects?

Guano

200

When did Robber Baron first open?

1920s/ 20s

200

What is the chemical formula for Calcite!

CaCO3

200

What do you do at the end of EVERY rope you are about to decend?

Tie a knot

200

How many acres does Deep and Punkin Cave Preserve have?

225 acres

300

Name the classic blind salamander that inhabits the Edwards Plateau karst of Texas.

The Texas blind salamander, Eurycea rathbuni.

300

When was the texas cavern protection act passed?

June 13, 1979/ 70s

300

How do you date cave formations?

radiometric methods/  Uranium-Thorium dating

300

When was National Cave Rescue Committee (NCRC) established?

1979

300

What is the chemical formula for Gypsum?

CaSO4 * 2H2O

400

Primary source of nitrogen for cave microbes?

Ammonia

400

What was the first Grotto established in Texas 

UT Grotto 1950

400

What is the first commerical cave that opened in Texas?

Wonder Cave in 1903

Discovered in 1893 

400

What do Texas Cavers use in vertical rope practices that not a lot of other states or countries use?

Note: Not the type of vertical technique

Rope Pads

400

How wide is the entrance to Devils Sinkhole?

50ft wide

500

What are the two endangered species found at Robber Baron cave?

Robber Baron Cave meshweaver and the Robber Baron Cave harvestman

500

When was the first grotto in the United States established?

1939/ 30s

District of Columbia Grotto (DCG), Following the 1941 founding of the NSS.

500

A NSS paper cites “cave bedrock” as a source of fossils. Which geologic period’s marine fossils are exposed in Carlsbad Caverns’ bedrock?

Permian

500

How many courses are offered in NCRC (National Cave Rescue Commission)?

Note: Not just Levels 1-3

7

Orientation to Cave Rescue(OCR)
Level 1 - Task Force Member
Level 2 - Task Force Leader
Level 3 - Cave Rescue Specialist
Team Operations and Field Exercises (TOFE)
Small Party Assisted Rescue (SPAR)
In-Cave Emergency Exercises (ICEE)
500

What state has the MOST Grottos?

Missouri or West Virginia

Both have 12 Grottos