Caves

What is the most common type of cave?

• Sea cave
• Lava tube
• Ice cave
• Limestone cave

What mineral makes up limestone?

• Carbonic Acid
• Calcite
• Bedrock

When water mixes with carbon dioxide in the air, what solution is formed?

• Carbonic acid
• Calcite
• Calcium carbonate

Which of the following terms refers to cave formations that hang down from the cave ceiling?

• Stalactite
• Stalagmite
• Column
• Flow stone

Which of the following terms refers to cave formations that form on the cave floor and grow from the ground up?

• Stalactite
• Stalagmite
• Column
• Flow stone

Which of the following results from the joining of a stalactite and stalagmite?

• Drapery
• Flow stone
• Column
• Soda straw

In order for a cave to form, the ____________ ground water dissolves the __________________ rock along _____________.

• basic, silica, cracks

• acidic, limestone, fissures

• acidic, silica, fissures

• acidic, quartz, fissures

In order for cave formations to appear, the cave must be _________ the water table.

• above

• below

What geological feature is formed when the roof of a cave collapses?

• cavern

• sinkhole

• water table

• fissures

Which does NOT belong?

• column

• sill

• stalagmite