Wind Cave National Park Word Search

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• BOXWORK Honeycomb fins of calcite on the cave ceiling. Wind Cave has more than all other caves on Earth put together.
• FROSTWORK Needle-like calcite or aragonite growths, often sprouting on top of boxwork.
• CALCITE The mineral that builds nearly every formation in this cave.
• LIMESTONE The 350-million-year-old rock the cave was dissolved out of, called Madison or Pahasapa here.
• CAVE 167 miles of it as of 2024, packed under 1.25 square miles of prairie.
• WIND It blew Jesse Bingham's hat off the ground in 1881 and gave the cave its name.
• LAKOTA The nation whose emergence story begins at the cave's natural entrance.
• TICKET You need one to go underground. You do not need one to enter the park.
• TOUR The only way into the cave, and a ranger leads every one.
• RANGER Guides every trip below ground. There are no self-guided cave routes here.
• ELEVATOR How the accessibility tour rides in and out, from a building south of the visitor center.
• PRAIRIE The grassland on top of the cave, where the bison and elk graze.
• BISON North America's largest land mammal. A bull can weigh 2,000 pounds and run 35 miles an hour.
• PRONGHORN The fastest land animal on the continent, and the only one that sheds its horn sheaths each year.
• COTERIE A prairie-dog neighborhood: one male, three or four females, and this year's pups.