Cave Terms - Stephanie s
Across
- 2. - Animals that spend their entire lives in caves. Often with special adaptations to the cave environment, such as long sensitive limbs.
- 4. - The study of caves
- 6. Stream - A surface stream that is diverted to the underground via a sinkhole or cave within the stream's valley
- 7. - A layer of rock or sediment containing groundwater that can be drawn for use above ground.
- 8. - Animals that visit caves but return to the surface regularly. Caves may be used as shelter, denning sites, etc
- 12. A landscape characterized by caves, sinkholes, and other features formed by the dissolution of soluble rocks
- 13. Bridge - The roof remnant of a collapsed cave system.
- 15. - Animals that spend their entire lives in caves. Often with special adaptations to the cave environment, such as long sensitive limbs.
- 16. - Cave formations, including stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, dripstone, rimstone, soda straws, helictites, columns, etc.
Down
- 1. - The study of cave life
- 3. - Animals that can and do live in caves, but are capable of surving outside. May be found in similar outside environments such as under rocks or in soil
- 5. rock - Formed from deposits of sediments or from fragments of other minerals
- 9. - A rounded depression in the landscape formed by solution of bedrock or collapse of an underlying cavity.
- 10. - A natural cavity beneath the earth's surface. Example: Round Spring Cave
- 11. A large underground chamber, typically of natural origin
- 14. - the crystalized form of calcium carbonate. This is the major material in stalactites and other cave formations.