Cave Life

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Cave quiz game
The Formation of Caves
Speleothems
Types of Caves
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Cave Life
Name That Speleothem
Fossils Rocks
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Speleothems 100
Speleothems are frequently formed when this fluid
drips from a cave ceiling.
Answer Water
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Speleothems 200
Speleothems form as these precipitate out of
fluids and are deposited on cave ceilings and
walls.
Answer Minerals
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Speleothems 300
Speleothems consist mainly of this type of
mineral.
Answer Calcite
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Speleothems 400
True or False
The term speleothem refers to what a cave
formation looks like (its morphology), and not
its composition.
Answer TRUE
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Speleothems 500
One thing that all speleothems have in common is
that they cannot form until the level of the cave
is above this
Answer Water table
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Types of caves 100
These types of caves are produced from the action
of waves pounding against rocks that line the
shores of oceans and lakes.
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Answer Sea caves
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Types of caves 200
This type of cave was commonly used by early
people for shelter.
Answer Sandstone caves
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Types of caves 300
This is another name for a lava cave.
Answer Lava tube
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Types of caves 400
This the name for the piles of rocks that are
produced from rockslides that can contain spaces
large enough to produce cave-like formations.
Answer Talus
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Types of caves 500
Name the 2 types of ice caves 1.)
This type is formed in ice. 2.) This
type is formed in rock but stays frozen year
round.
Answers 1.) glacier cave 2.)
frozen cave
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The formation of caves 100
This type of cave is formed when acidic water
dissolves rocks like limestone.
Answer Solution Cave
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The formation of caves 200
This type of cave is formed when the action of
earthquakes form natural cracks in rock.
Answer Tectonic cave
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The formation of caves 300
The hard upper crust of lava caves is formed as
this touches the flowing lava and cools it.
Answer air
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The formation of caves 400
This is the term used when referring to the act
or process of dissolving.
Answer Dissolution
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The formation of caves 500
The ceilings of water-filled caves are supported
by this type of force.
Answer Buyout force
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Cave life100
What name is given to animals that love to spend
time in caves?
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Answer Troglophiles
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Cave life200
What is the name for the cave animal that is only
a periodic visitor?
Answer Trogloxene
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Cave life300
What name is given to animals that are adapted to
spend their entire lives in caves?
Answer Troglobites
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Cave life400
What factor is used to determine in which
category a cave animal is classified?
Answer The amount of TIME an animal spends in
a cave.
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Cave life500
Name the 4 life zones in a cave.
Answers 1. Entrance Zone 2. Twilight
Zone 3. Variable Temperature and Total
Darkness 4. Dark Zone
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Name That Speleothem100
What 2 types of speleothems have joined together
to make this column?
Stalactite
1.
Stalagmite
2.
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Photo Source NPS Cave and Karst Program
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Name That Speleothem200
This speleothem sometimes resembles baconwhat is
it?
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Answer Drapery
Photos from the National Park Service Cave and
Karst Program
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Name That Speleothem300
What type of speleothems are these?
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Answer Cave flowers
Photos from the National Park Service Cave and
Karst Program
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Name That Speleothem400
This speleothem can eventually grow into a
stalactite. What is it?
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Answer Soda straw
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Name That Speleothem500
What type of speleothems are these?
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Answer Boxwork
Photos from the National Park Service Cave and
Karst Program
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Fossils Rocks100
What are the 3 main rock types?
Answer Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic
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Fossils Rocks 200
What are the spaces between soil particles called?
Answer Pore spaces
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Fossils Rocks 300
Of the 3 main rock types, nearly all fossils are
found in this rock type
Answer Sedimentary Rocks
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Fossils Rocks 400
This is the term given to the study of forms of
life existing in prehistoric or geological times,
especially as represented by fossils.
Answer Paleontology
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Fossils Rocks 500
The nests of packrats can be considered
biological warehouses due to the enormous amounts
of fossils they contain. What is the name for
these nests?
Answers Middens
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