Healthy Caving
Gear in Rhyme
Cave Types
Cave Formations
Wildlife
100
This injury occurs when there is prolonged friction between the hands and rope.
What is Rope Burn?
100
A tiny device that lets you see, and goes on you head 'cause it's hands free.
What is a Headlamp?
100
These caves are formed through melting water moving through glaciers.
What are Glacier Caves? (Ice Caves)
100
Water deposits this and makes formations within caves.
What are Minerals?
100
This Boy Scout policy is important to preserving natural organisms way of life in the cave.
What is Leave-no-Trace.
200
A strip of rigid material used to secure and immobilize a broken bone.
What is a Splint?
200
Optional, but protective all the same, use it to protect knees and elbows from being maimed.
What are Knee and Elbow Pads.
200
These caves are formed during the movement of lava flows.
What are Lava Tube Caves?
200
Young stalactites that begin to grow when their hollow interior closes up.
What are Capillary Tubes?
200
This type of life is a Troglobite that can only live in a cave. Other members of this species are found in rivers and used for food.
What is a Fish?
300
This procedure is performed on someone who is not breathing and has typically entered cardiac arrest.
What is CPR? (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation)
300
A way for those to hear you from many distant feet, blow and emit a shrill tweet.
What is a Whistle?
300
The most common type of cave that is formed in rock that is dissolved in weak acidic acid.
What is a Solution Cave?
300
When a stalactite and stalagmite grow into each other.
What is a Column?
300
This type of life is a Trogloxene, and needs to find food outside of the cave. It is well known for its ecolocation.
What is a Bat?
400
This creature is the most common disease vector in caves.
What is a Bat?
400
Place to put dirty clothes away, once you get out of the cave.
What is a Plastic Bag?
400
This type of cave is formed through earthquake action.
What are Tectonic Caves?
400
Thin layers build up on the cave floor and form this formation.
What is Flowstone?
400
This type of life is a Troglophile, which can live in a cave if it chooses. It dies in the sun, but must come out when it rains, lest it drowns.
What is an Earthworm?
500
This disease is treated through the Milwaukee protocol or pre-exposure vaccination and possesses symptoms of fever, headache, excess salivation, muscle spasms, paralysis, and mental confusion.
What is Rabies?
500
Important to take on every trip, even when descending into a pit.
What are the Ten Essentials?
500
This type of caves forms from giant rocks that have fallen from high cliffs.
What are Talus Caves?
500
Water works through cracks in the ceiling and evaporates before it can fall.
What are Drappery Formations? (Curtains)
500
This area of the cave is the location with the most amounts of organisms.
What is the Entrance?