1. In the 1970s, David Thomas discovered the ancient settlement of Gatecliff Rockshelter in the Great Basin in what state that borders Idaho and Utah?
2. In the early 2000s, Ken Goldman studied the ecological role of salmon sharks in Prince William Sound bordering the Bering Sea in what state?
3. In 2010, Joshua Howard researched the effects of mountaintop-removal coal mining in the Cumberland Plateau in what state that borders West Virginia and Illinois?
4. In the late 1960s, Philip Lundeberg searched for sunken Revolutionary War gunboats in Lake Champlain in what state that borders Lake Ontario?
5. In the 1970s, Larry Agenbroad led the mammoth dig site in Hot Springs in what state that borders Minnesota and Wyoming?
6. In 2007, Dashiell Pappas studied the diet of gray seals in Penobscot Bay in what state that borders New Hampshire and Canada?
7. In 2008, storm chaser Tim Samaras used advanced technology to study tornadoes south of the Smoky Hills just north of Oklahoma in what state?
8. Preparing for his 1963 Mount Everest expedition, Barry Bishop trained in Mount Rainier National Park in what state that borders Oregon and Canada?
9. In the 1920s, Neil Judd and A.E. Douglass explored and excavated ancient sites in the Chaco Canyon in what state that borders Arizona and Texas?
10. In the early 2000s, Stephen Kowalewski investigated the Kolomoki Native American mounds along the Chattahoochee River bordering Alabama and South Carolina in what state?
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ANSWERS: 1.Nevada 2. Alaska 3. Kentucky 4. New York 5. South Dakota 6. Maine 7. Kansas 8. Washington 9. New Mexico 10. Georgia
