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Cave Dictionary |
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Ranger Joel says Hi ! |
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Check out the SUPER Secret Cave Cadet Log Book! |
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Flowstone: looks slimy and runny, but it's SOLID ROCK! A lot of people think of chocolate ice cream when they see it. |
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Cave Cadet Training |
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Secret Cadet Missions |
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Pictures Gallery |
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Stalactite: is a kind of cave formation that holds on tight to the ceiling. |
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Cave of the Week |
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Cave Dictionary |
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Stalagmite: is a kind of cave formation that you might trip over because it's on the ground. |
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Ranger Joel |
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Mammals: are the kind of animal that humans are. They are the only animals that have hair, feed their babies milk, and have warm blood. |
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Ecolocation: is a way of finding your way around by making short noises that bounce off the walls. When you hear the noise you made again, you know what is in front of you. Sorry cadets, this only works for bats! |
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Natural Light: is any light that comes from the sun. Most caves are dark and don't let in sunlight. |
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Orienteering: is when you use a map and a compass at the same time. This is the best way to be sure you are exactly where you want to be. |
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Spelunking: is a word that means going into a cave. |
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Pollination: is the way plants make more plants. Birds, bats, and bees are some of the animals that help plants move pollen from one to the other. |
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Harness: is a special belt that fits around your waist and your legs to hold you tight to a rope, just to make sure you don't slip and fall. |
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Sedimentary: rocks are made out of lots of little tiny peices of broken rocks, that are all stuck together (kind of like using glue to make a ball of sand). |
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Igneous: rocks used to be melted way down underground, but they cooled off and now they're hard! |
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Metamorphic: rocks are special, because they used to be a different kind, but they were cooked and squeezed underground so much that they changed. |
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The Rock Cycle: is what we say a rock does when it gets turned into a different kind of rock. It starts off melted, then it cools off, then it breaks and gets stuck back together, and sometimes it gets cooked and squeezed into a new kind. Someday, it might melt again, and it starts all over! |
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Aquifer: is the name for water that flows under the ground and gets cleaned out. |
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Sinkholes: are places where an underground stream made the ground fall down on top of it.. |
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Karst System: is a name for water that flows under the ground through big open tunnels, where it never gets cleaned out. |
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Endemic Species: are creatures that can only survive in 1 place, like a cave! |
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Adapting: is what we call it when creatures change so they can survive. |
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Bacteria: are little tiny organisms that live in the water and on the rocks of certain caves. |
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Leaf-litter: is a word for the piles of dead leaves on the floor of a forest.. |
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| 'Cave Cadets' logo and original text content product of Joel Barker. |
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