Ayalon Cave, the Glossary
The Ayalon Cave (מערת איילון, Arabic/Aramaic, Shiha شيحا) is a large limestone cave near Ramla, Israel, with a worldwide unique ecosystem.[1]
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- Caves of Israel
- Ramla
Akrav
Akrav israchanani is an extinct species of scorpions from the Ayalon Cave in Israel.
Alleghany County, Virginia
Alleghany County is an American county located on the far western edge of Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Amos Frumkin
Amos Frumkin is an Israeli geologist and speleologist.
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Aquifer
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock, or of unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Aramaic
Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.
Autotroph
An autotroph is an organism that can convert abiotic sources of energy into energy stored in organic compounds, which can be used by other organisms.
Avshalom Cave
Avshalom Cave (Me'arat Avshalom), known in academic literature as Soreq Cave (Me'arat Soreq; Mghar Suriq) and popularly as Stalactites Cave (Me'arat HaNetifim), is a 5,000 m2 cave on the western side of Mt. Ayalon Cave and Avshalom Cave are caves of Israel and Limestone caves.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
Bar Kokhba hiding complexes
The Bar Kokhba hiding complexes are underground hideout systems built by Jewish rebels and their communities in Judaea and used during the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE) against the Roman Empire.
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Biome
A biome is a distinct geographical region with specific climate, vegetation, and animal life.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Caucasus Mountains
The Caucasus Mountains is a mountain range at the intersection of Asia and Europe.
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Chemosynthesis
In biochemistry, chemosynthesis is the biological conversion of one or more carbon-containing molecules (usually carbon dioxide or methane) and nutrients into organic matter using the oxidation of inorganic compounds (e.g., hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide) or ferrous ions as a source of energy, rather than sunlight, as in photosynthesis.
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Chemotroph
A chemotroph Greek words “chemo” (meaning chemical) and “troph” (meaning nourishment) is an organism that obtains energy by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
Elassona
Elassona (Ellassóna; Katharevousa: Elasson) is a town and a municipality in the Larissa regional unit in Greece.
Energy
Energy is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat and light.
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Food chain
A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph (such as grass or algae), also called a producer, and typically ending at an apex predator (such as grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivore (such as earthworms and woodlice), or decomposer (such as fungi or bacteria).
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Food web
A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.
Frasassi Caves
The Frasassi Caves (Italian: Grotte di Frasassi) are a karst cave system in the municipality of Genga, Italy, in the province of Ancona, Marche.
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Geography of Israel
The geography of Israel is very diverse, with desert conditions in the south, and snow-capped mountains in the north.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Haaretz
Haaretz (originally Ḥadshot Haaretz –) is an Israeli newspaper.
Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Israel Hayom
Israel Hayom (lit) is an Israeli national Hebrew-language free daily newspaper.
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The Israel Nature and Parks Authority (רשות הטבע והגנים,; سلطة الطبيعة والحدائق) is an Israeli government organization that manages nature reserves and national parks in Israel, the Golan Heights and parts of the West Bank.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
List of troglobites
A troglobite (or, formally, troglobiont) is an animal species, or population of a species, strictly bound to underground habitats, such as caves.
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Mekorot
Mekorot (מקורות, lit. "Sources") is the national water company of Israel and the country's top agency for water management.
Movile Cave
Movile Cave is a cave near Mangalia, Constanța County, Romania discovered in 1986 by Cristian Lascu a few kilometers from the Black Sea coast. Ayalon Cave and Movile Cave are Limestone caves.
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Nesher Ramla Homo
The Nesher Ramla Homo group are an extinct population of archaic humans who lived during the Middle Pleistocene in what is now Israel.
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Organic compound
Some chemical authorities define an organic compound as a chemical compound that contains a carbon–hydrogen or carbon–carbon bond; others consider an organic compound to be any chemical compound that contains carbon.
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Palestinian Authority
The Palestinian Authority, officially known as the Palestinian National Authority or the State of Palestine, is the Fatah-controlled government body that exercises partial civil control over the Palestinian enclaves in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as a consequence of the 1993–1995 Oslo Accords.
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Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.
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Ramla
Ramla or Ramle (רַמְלָה, Ramlā; الرملة, ar-Ramleh) is a city in the Central District of Israel.
Redox
Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.
Roy Marom
Roy Marom is an Israeli historian and historical geographer.
Runoff (hydrology)
Runoff is the flow of water across the earth, and is a major component in the hydrological cycle.
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Samaria
Samaria is the Hellenized form of the Hebrew name Shomron (translit), used as a historical and biblical name for the central region of Israel, bordered by Judea to the south and Galilee to the north.
Scorpion
Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones.
Sharo-Argun
Sharo-Argun (Шаро-Аргун; Шара-Орга, Şara-Orga) is a rural locality (a selo) in the Shatoysky District in Chechnya, Russia.
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Springtail
Springtails (Collembola) form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects (the other two are the Protura and Diplura).
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Stygofauna
Stygofauna are any fauna that live in groundwater systems or aquifers, such as caves, fissures and vugs.
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Subterranean fauna
endemic of Dinaric Alps Subterranean fauna refers to animal species that are adapted to live in an underground environment.
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Sulfide
Sulfide (also sulphide in British English) is an inorganic anion of sulfur with the chemical formula S2− or a compound containing one or more S2− ions.
Sunlight
Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.
Tashan District
Tashan District (بخش تشان) is in Behbahan County, Khuzestan province, Iran.
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The Times of Israel
The Times of Israel is an Israeli multi-language online newspaper that was launched in 2012.
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Troglofauna
Troglofauna are small cave-dwelling animals that have adapted to their dark surroundings.
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Trophic level
The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web.
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Typhlocaris galilea
Typhlocaris galilea is a species of troglobitic shrimp in the genus Typhlocaris, and is endemic to one pool and spring that feeds it, at Tabgha in Israel.
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Villa Luz Cave
Villa Luz Cave, Spanish name Cueva de Villa Luz (lit. Cave of the Lighted Town), also known as Cueva del Azufre and Cueva de las Sardinas, is a cave near Tapijulapa in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco. Ayalon Cave and Villa Luz Cave are Limestone caves.
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Wildlife of Israel
The wildlife of Israel includes the flora and fauna of Israel, which is extremely diverse due to the country's location between the temperate and the tropical zones, bordering the Mediterranean Sea in the west and the desert in the east.
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Wyoming
Wyoming is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
See also
Caves of Israel
- Amud Cave
- Avshalom Cave
- Ayalon Cave
- Bar Kokhba refuge caves
- Cave of Adullam
- Cave of Elijah
- Cave of Horrors
- Cave of Letters
- Cave of Nicanor
- El Wad
- HaYonim Cave
- Jamal cave
- Kebara Cave
- Malcham cave
- Manot Cave
- Misliya Cave
- Nahal Hemar Cave
- Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve
- Nahal Mishmar hoard
- Pa'ar Cave
- Qafzeh Cave
- Qesem cave
- Raqefet Cave
- Rosh HaNikra grottoes
- Scopus stone vessels cave
- Skhul Cave
- Tabun Cave
- Te'omim Cave
Ramla
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayalon_Cave
Also known as Ayyalon Cave.
, Sunlight, Tashan District, The Times of Israel, Troglofauna, Trophic level, Typhlocaris galilea, Villa Luz Cave, Wildlife of Israel, Wyoming.