U.S. Geography
Apalachee Bay is the eastern edge of this section of Florida stretching 200 miles west.
The Panhandle
Charles Richard Drew organized the first of these alliterative plasma storage programs
A blood bank
This word can describe a sheep with a thick fleecy coat, or an extinct mammoth also noted for its coat.
Wooly
To try out for a dramatic role by reading a short scene
Audition
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
Louisiana
In a 1980 eruption, it lost about 1,000 feet off its top.
Mount St. Helens
Dr. Dean Ornish is known for treating heart patients by limiting fat & cholesterol & managing this mental aspect.
Stress
If your dog sits, stays or heels on command, he's considered this 8-letter highly desirable adjective.
Obedient
The Shedd of Chicago is one of these fishy places
Aquarium
Penobscot Narrows Bridge
Maine
This California island and its famous Art Deco casino, used not for gambling but as an event venue.
(Santa) Catalina
Barry Marshall won a 2005 Nobel Prize for proving that peptic these are an infectious bacterial disease.
Ulcers
From the Latin word for "tree", this term is used for certain monkeys who spend most of their time in trees.
Arboreal
The lens you look through at the viewing end of a microscope or telescope
Eyepiece
Lake Champlain Bridge (2 states, please)
Vermont & New York
Seneca is the deepest of this group of lakes in New York state.
The Finger Lakes
A medical milestone came when Dr. John Snow traced an outbreak of this disease in Victorian London to a single water pump.
Cholera
This word describes birds that travel great distances during certain seasons of the year.
Migratory
To leave a building or other location because it is not safe to stay there.
Evacuate
Mackinac Bridge
Michigan
A tributary of the Ohio, the Wabash River forms a 200-mile section of the boundary between these 2 states.
Illinois & Indiana
A 2019 surgery on a 60-year-old woman revealed a nearly 50-year-old mitral valve that this South African man had implanted.
Dr. Christiaan Barnard
Aggressive cats may also be this, extra protective of their home turf or personal space.
Territorial
A French word for "shop", in English it means a small specialty shop
Boutique
The John Ringling Causeway