Cave Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. caves formed by the sea crashing against the rocks
  2. 4. are natural formations found in caves
  3. 8. a cave formed by volcanic lava
  4. 11. opening to a cave
  5. 12. a person who explores caves
  6. 14. A thick icicle shaped formation the grows down from the ceiling of the cave
  7. 18. a formation that reaches from the floor to the ceiling of the cave
  8. 19. Thin wavy sheets of hanging rock found in a cave
  9. 20. A sheet of minerals inside a cave
Down
  1. 1. very large caves
  2. 3. a scientist that studies caves
  3. 5. animals that spend only part of their life cycle in a cave
  4. 6. the kind of rock in which solution caves usually form
  5. 7. Any large cavity inside a cave system.
  6. 9. The third most common cave mineral.
  7. 10. is the scientific study of caves
  8. 13. a cave still receiving water
  9. 15. the cause of the most damage to caves
  10. 16. results when surface land collapses into a cave
  11. 17. a large underground chamber, typically of natural origin, in a hillside or cliff.