Lava Beds National Monument Word Search

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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.