Junior Ranger
Lava Beds National Monument
Big and Little made these — see how you do.
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The caves here are lava tubes. Long ago, lava flowed like a river. The top cooled into a hard roof, the lava inside drained away, and it left an empty tunnel you can walk through.
Park Quiz
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The caves at Lava Beds are called lava tubes. How did they form?
Lava flowed like a river, the surface crusted over into a hard roof, and when the lava inside drained out it left an empty tunnel, which is a lava tube.
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- LAVATUBE A cave that forms when lava drains out from under a hardened crust.
- MODOC The Native people whose homeland this is, and who fought the war here.
- KINTPUASH The Modoc leader also called Captain Jack.
- STRONGHOLD The lava fortress where Captain Jack held out against the army.
- PETROGLYPH A shape carved into rock long ago, like the ones at the Point.
- MUSHPOT The one cave here with lights inside, right by the visitor center.
- HEADLAMP The light you wear on your head to see inside a dark cave.
- BAT A flying animal that roosts in the caves. Sixteen kinds live here.
- VOLCANO The Medicine Lake one made all this rock over half a million years.
- MEDICINELAKE The name of the wide, flat shield volcano this monument sits on.
- TULELAKE The lake that once reached the carvings at Petroglyph Point.
- ICECAVE A cave, like Skull Cave, that stays cold enough to hold ice all year.
- CINDERCONE A steep hill of loose volcanic rock, like the one near Petroglyph Point.
- STARS So many shine here at night that it is a Dark Sky Park.
- RANGER The person in the green and gray uniform who signs your Junior booklet.
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