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In your own words, explain why Florida has a large number of underwater cave systems. List one use of underwater caves in Florida.

Answer 1

slightly acidic rainwater dissolves the limestone bedrock creating caverns and sinkholes

the high water table in much of the state effectictively floods most of them.

people use them to find ice age fossils as many animals got trapped in the sinkholes

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Answer 2

These cave can be used for SCUBA diving and SCUBA training.

Step-by-step explanation:

Florida has a landscape which has limestone in its base. Limestone is porous. Acid rain occurs in Florida. But the water is slightly acidic. This slightly acidic water when passes through limestone bedrock it dissolves with limestone due to which holes are created in the bedrock. Therefore rivers in Florida has honeycombed shape limestone layer and Florida has a large number of underwater caves.

These cave can be used for SCUBA diving and SCUBA training.