Anna's Amazing Amethysts(and more!)
This is the technological tool that modern geologists use to map environments.
GIS (+100 if they name global information system)
This species of dolphin are pelagic, meaning that they live in the open ocean, as opposed to more shore-living relatives.
Pacific white sided dolphin
On May 14th, 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition set out for uncharted lands from this state.
Illinois (double points for Camp Dubois, Camp Wood, or Wood River)
This National Park is centered around mountains named by French Fur Trappers in the early 19th century.
Grand Teton
This state boasts the "greatest snow on earth".
Utah
This is one of the softest minerals in the world, with a Mohs Hardness of 1.
Talc
This animal is the most direct descendant of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Chicken
This Operation was the German campaign to capture the Soviet Union in WWII.
Operation Barbarossa
Jim Bridger, famous Mountain Man of the West, reported observing "boiling springs, spouting water, and a mountain of glass and yellow rock" at this National Park.
Yellowstone
This state boasts the oldest continuously used capital in the United States.
New Mexico
This geological feature is a big player in many cultures' mythologies.
Volcanos
This animal is the largest mammal that resides above 13,000 feet
Mountain Goat
This Sultan of the Ottoman Empire led the country to it's peak area at ~900,000 square miles.
Suleiman the Magnificent
Daily Double!
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
This state has the highest average elevation of any US State.
Colorado
This crystal's birefringent properties has made it important to humans for milennia: from being the stone of the Egyptian god Bast, to it's use in gun sights in WWII, or in it's modern use as a polarizing element in optics.
Calcite
Adults of this animal are capable eating as much as 80% of their body weight, and hunt with the advantage of their venomous bite.
Komodo Dragon
The Maastrict Treaty established this. (1992)
The European Union
The biggest attractor to crowds at this National Park is the scenic Moraine Park Campground.
Rocky Mountain National Park
This state's state tree is the Ponderosa Pine.
Montana
Cirques and Aretes are geological formations that are caused by this.
Glaciers
This animal features two canine-like teeth called ivories, and scientists think that these ivories were sabre-like teeth on ancestors of this species.
Elk
This French Catholic established "the royal monopoly of force" in the 1620s.
This National Park's name is a misnomer geologically, it should really be called Cuesta _.
Mesa Verde
In terms of square miles, this state is the 25th largest state by area.
Illinois