Word List Spelunking and Caving 128 words

Spelunking and Caving Vocabulary Word List (128)

• A

  alert, anxiety, appeal, apprehension, atmosphere, attraction, awe

• B

  bats, beauty, biosphere, boots, bruise, buddy, bump

• C

  candle, canyon walk, cave, cavern, ceiling, challenge, claustrophobia, clay, climb, complex, cool, core, courage, crawl, curiosity

• D

  dank, darkness, degree, deposits, depth, descent, discovery, dome, dripping, drop, duck-walk

• E

  earth, ease, eerie, endurance, essential, exhilaration, expectation, explore

• F

  facing fear, filthy, fit, flashlight, fungus

• G

  geology, gloves, goggling, guide

• H

  half-way, hard-to-reach, helmet, help, hiking, hole, hours, hurt

• I

  icicle, independent, injury, interest, intrigue

• J

  joy

• K

  kneel, knees

• L

  lamps, ledge, light source, limestone, lug

• M

  major, map, matches, mental

• N

  narrow, nature, neophyte, netherworld, notification

• O

  observation, obstruction, oolites (cave pearls), ooze, opt

• P

  park ranger, passageway, physical, problem, profusion, protection, pull, push

• Q

  quest, quiet

• R

  relax, resource, rest

• S

  schedule, slither, stalactite, stalagmite, strength

• T

  teamwork, temperatures

• U

  uncertainty, undiscovered, unexplored, unforgiving, unique, unwise

• V

  variety, vital

• W

  wander, watch, wedge, wet, wick, wiggle

• X

• Y

• Z

  zealous