Cave Test

Question 1

Are bats trogloxenes, troglophiles, or troglobites?

Answer 1

troglophiles

Question 2

Besides limestone, what other sedimentary rocks host many caves?

Answer 2

rock gypsum, rock salt, chalk

Question 3

Define bas-reliefs

Answer 3

artwork usually made of soft, pliable clay attached to walls or even to large blocks

Question 4

Define concavities

Answer 4

corresponding niches to convexities

Question 5

Define desiccation cracks

Answer 5

cracks occurring because of shrinking of sediment as it dries

Question 6

Define detrital formations

Answer 6

sediments brought into the caves by streams and residual material left by the limestone

Question 7

Define diagenesis

Answer 7

a complex set of transformation through which sediments go, from compaction, through dewatering to cementation

Question 8

Define dripping speleothem

Answer 8

stalactites, stalagmites, and columns that are growing

Question 9

Define Kyr

Answer 9

abbreviation for thousand years

Question 10

Define troglobites

Answer 10

creatures which live only in caves

Question 11

Define troglophiles

Answer 11

creatures which spend some part of their life in caves

Question 12

Define trogloxenes

Answer 12

creatures that got into a cave by accident and which try to leave

Question 13

Define xibalba

Answer 13

the Mayan “underworld”

Question 14

Extremely valuable information is yielded by continuous measurements of the discharge or flow rates (___) and chemical composition (___) of waters emerging through karst springs.

Answer 14

hydrograph; chemograph

Question 15

Name some pieces of gear needed for cave exploration

Answer 15

good footwear, good rope, flashlight, hard hat, gloves, pack, wool socks, knee pads

Question 16

The strange event near the ___ not only split the once unified population, but scattered those with different skills and abilities.

Answer 16

Tower of Babel

Question 17

Were Neanderthals a different species than us?

Answer 17

No, they were descended from the family of Noah.

Question 18

What are the three kinds of cave art that have been found?

Answer 18

paintings, engravings, and bas-reliefs

Question 19

What is the most obvious logical argument against a very old age of speleothems?

Answer 19

recorded growths of speleothems refute the necessity of tens or hundreds of thousands of years

Question 20

What is the Movile Cave in Romania famous for?

Answer 20

A spectacular environment where several new species of creatures were found

Question 21

Who was the first to build and use a diving device?

Answer 21

Alexander the Great in 325 B.C.

Question 22

Why do karstologists never recommend any significant mining activities below the karst water table?

Answer 22

Water has a way of finding its way through karst aquifers, draining away from the artificial water reservoir.

Question 23

Within what amount of time after the Flood did the Ice Age set in?

Answer 23

About 500 years

Question 24

Define myr

Answer 24

abbreviation for million years