Caving Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Helps you see
  2. 6. NSEW
  3. 10. A tapering structure hanging like an icicle from the roof of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water.
  4. 11. Modern device used for cave surveying
  5. 13. Fixed point in the cave used for mapping
  6. 14. Used during vertical caving to go up the rope
  7. 16. Used during vertical caving to go down the rope
  8. 17. Lanyard with two attachment points
  9. 18. Extremely great depth
Down
  1. 1. Speleothem found in a limestone cave that changes its axis from the vertical at one or more stages during its growth.
  2. 3. Disc-like cave formation
  3. 4. Sheetlike deposits of calcite or other carbonate minerals, formed where water flows down the walls or along the floors of a cave.
  4. 5. Measurement of the vertical angle between survey points
  5. 7. This items shows you where you can explore in the cave
  6. 8. Behavioral characteristic that improves an organism's chances for survival in a particular habitat
  7. 9. Used to protect your head
  8. 12. Mineral formations that grow upward from a cave floor
  9. 15. Metal loop with spring loaded gate
  10. 17. Pillar-like formation