Educational resource_guide

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Lesson Plan - Your Field Trip to Ruby Falls

Geology of Ruby Falls

History of Ruby Falls

Environmental Education

Vocabulary List 
("Cave Communications")

Thought Questions Page

Quiz - Fill in the blank

Experiment - "Grow your own rock"

Quiz - Multiple choice cave terms

Cave crossword puzzle

Teacher answer page

1. Ruby Falls and Lookout Mountain are a part of which mountain chain?
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2. What is the name of the process which helps form caves by breaking rocks apart with wind, water, or plants?_________________________________________

3. What is the name of the process which helps form caves by breaking rocks down by dissolving them?___________________________________________

4. 

a.) What kind of rock forms the cave?_________________________________

b.) What type (classification) is this rock?______________________________

5. What type of formation is formed when water drips down from the ceiling of the cave and leaves behind mineral deposits?____________________________


6. What type of formation is formed when water drips onto the floor of the cave and causes minerals to build up from the surface of the floor?_______________


7. What formation occurs when the two formations growing from the ceiling and the floor of the cave meet? _________________________________________


8. What is the name of the mineral that crystallizes to form the cave formations?
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9. What are the breaks in the surface of the earth along which mountains are formed?_________________________________________________________


10. During what era of the geologic time line were the mountain and caverns at Ruby Falls formed? (hint: this Period was called the Carboniferous Period).
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