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Caves
By
Akhil Chivukula
Characteristics
Caves are underground rooms[made from limestone]
Caves also form lava and other rocks
Most of water dries, leaving minerals behind
The minerals form stalactites that hang from cave ceilings
Some water on stalactites drips to the floor forming stalagmites
Stalagmites grow from cave floors towards the ceiling
Location
Mammoth cave is in Kentucky
Missouri is called the Cave State
Vornoja Krubera Cave is in Asia’s Republic of Georgia
Plants
Mosses and ferns grow near cave entrances[where light shines]
Mushrooms, Molds and other fungi[other types of organism that has no
leaves, more than one fungus is fungi] are not plants.
They don’t need light to grow.
Animals
Many fish in cave lakes and rivers don’t have eyes , so they get around by
feeling or smelling.
Other animals hibernate in caves.
Bears, bats and crickets spend cold months in caves.
Work Cited
Niz , Ellen . Caves. Minnesota, Mankato: Capstone
Press, 2006.