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Cave Exploring

A recreational activity where people enter caves for the enjoyment of being underground. This also includes cave-diving, cavern-diving and exploring surface pits. Topics include exploring equipment, methods for safely entering caves, and rope techniques. Caving is an organized activity where safety is a primary concern. Cave explorers often assist Speleologist with collecting data for research projects. Caving does not include paying to enter a cave that has paved sidewalks and fixed lighting. Entering a cave without proper training and equipment is not caving. Cave Exploring is a physical activity that often involves hiking and camping in remote areas. Caver explorers often publish stories about their experiences underground, including pictures they took in the cave.

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Where is a cleft of a cave?

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The middle of the cave.

Why are caves always cold?

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Caves are cold because of the cold water inside the cave that runs through most.

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That's true to a point but caves can be cold with no running water in them - and there are very many cases that are dry. (They have lost their formative streams.) There is a rule of thumb that says a cave's air temperature is about that of the mean annual air temperature for the area in which it lies, but this is not so for all caves.

What is common in cave art?

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it is with colors in it

What did they use to draw on the cave walls to get cave art?

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They ground up pigments from red and yellow earths also black charcoal and white chalk, mixed them with animal fats and applied them to the walls of the cave. They are amazingly durable since we can still see them today.

Why is Missouri called spelunkers paradise?

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cause its a paradise

What kind of place could you find caves?

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[Please see my reply below this original.] Caves are very rare formation usually found in mountains. They are vary rare as they are formed exclusively from a very unique creature that was found on earth in the jerassic period. The creature is called the secallius lumosur. This translate to giant worm. It lived most of its life underground, only coming into the outside world to mate. Caves can be found in very few places these days due to collapses and the extinction of the giant worm. They can be found in Germany and Russia.

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Caves are very common formations.

Yes they are found in mountainous areas but not exclusively so: they need limestone uplands but the relief need not be ever so high.

They do not have biological origins although their host lilestone may be highly fossiliferous.

That limestone may well be Jurassic (not "Jerassic") but could also be Carboniferous or Cretaceous: most of the UK' caves are in CarboniferousLimestone though some are in late Jurassic rock. Most French caves are in Jurassic and Cretaceous Limestones.

I've no idea where you found yourSecallius Lumosurbut it looks made-up.

What can be found in Germany and Russia?The worm or the cave?Both countries have caves - so does the UK, USA, China, Iran and many other countries.

Right - the serious answer to the question itself, as I assume the questioner wanted;
Most caves are in limestone uplands offeringsuitable geological, hydrological and long-term climatic conditions to encourage cave development,which proceeds by rain-water sinking into the rock's joints and other fractures and slowly dissolving it.

What are spelunkers?

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it is a person who explores caves.

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Not according to most such people.

I've no idea where the word originated [but now see below] - USA slang yes, but how, when & why I do not know. No American caving literature I've ever read, uses the word. The proper, international, term in the English language is "caver". Simple as that.

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Since writing that below my '+++' answer-partition I learnt that "spelunker" was a rather pretentious but harmless invention by two American cavers in the 1930s. It was used for a while quite innocently and picked up the Press and non-caving public. Eventually the word became one of derision among cavers themselves for novices and dilettantes, and so faded away from caving publications; but this development was not realised by non-cavers.

There is a fancy word, Speleologist - this describes a caver who studies scientifically the caves themselves (geology etc) and their contents (wildlife etc.). The first e should really be the ae dipthong character, but it is usually now emasculated to just e. Notably perhaps, one of the world's leading speleology learned-journals is called simply Cave and Karst Science.

Where is the largest underground cave located?

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Mammoth Cave

ADDED: Depends on how to defines largest; but Mammoth - Flint Ridge Caves system has certainly world's longest knowntotal of surveyed passage length, I believe now >400 miles.

What type of plants live in a cave?

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There are no plants in caves,except for the grasses and such at the mouth of a cave, as there is no sunlight.

What are sea caves used for?

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They are not usually used by Man except recreationally. Naturally, sea caves become be refuges for various invertebrates that feed on the dead seaweed that accumulates in them.

In some places sea-caves became popularly associated with 18-19C smugglers using them as hiding-places for their booty, but there is little real evidence for this. If the smugglers knew about a cave, so would the local "Preventy Men" (Customs) & any informants!

What is the purpose of cave art?

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Cave paintings are paintings on cave walls and ceilings, and the term is used especially for those dating to prehistoric times.

Cave arts are paintings found on ceilings and cave walls , and often refer to paintings of prehistoric origin.

Where is the imbakan and tanggapan and ospital and tambangan cave located in bulacan?

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San Miguel, Bulacan

*correction it should be " Imbakan, Tanggapan,Ospital and Tambakan"

What is the name for a depression in a cave holding water?

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There isn't a specific term for such a thing, beyond "pool"!

Does the Eisriesenwelt Cave have any plants or animals?

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It may have but I would think it would be a very limited ecosystem as the cave is noted for being very cold, with thick ice deposits.

How is a cave made of?

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Caves are made by water and wind carving into the Earth's crust.