Expert Groups
Stargirl Expert Groups (Finished)
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- Ukulele
- a small stringed instrument like a guitar; associated with Hawaii
- Kimono
- a robe-like dress with a sash; associated with Japan
- Flapper dresses
- straight topped, flared bottoms; assciated with the 1920's
- isosceles triangle
- a triangle with two equal sides
- Maricopa Mountains
- large, beautiful mountain range in Arizona in the Sonoran Desert
- Mica
- a mineral found in the desert; also a town in Arizona
- GQ
- Gentlemens Quarterly Magazine; Vouge for men
- Paleontologist
- a scientist who studies fossils
- Riddles
- mind games that test the wit and skill
- Alpha Centuri
- star on the Milky way galaxy that is most likely to sustain other forms of life
- Paleocene
- "early dawn of the recent", is a geologic epoch that lasted from 65 million years ago to 56 million years ago
- Sonoron Desert
- an arid region covering 120,000 square miles in southwester Arizona and southeastern California, as well as most of Baja, California and the western half of the state of SONORA, Arizona
- Mudfrogs
- frogs that lie dormant under ponds or lakebeds, and only come back to "life" when rain comes
- Pantomime
- the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, ect., by gestures without speech
- Eocene
- a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the palaeogene period in the Cenozoic era
- Ocotillo
- a curious or unique desert plant of the southwestern United States and nothern Mexico
- Oz
- imaginary region containing four countries under the rule of one monarch
- Gamma Rays
- an energetic form of electronmagnetic radiation produced by radioactive decay or other nuclear or subtomic processes such as electronmagnetic spectrum
- Amish
- an Anabaptist Christian denomination and Swiss-German ethnic group found primarily in the United States and Ontario, Canada, that are known for restrictions on the use of modern devices such as automobiles and telephones
- hippie
- a term commonly used to refer to some of the disaffected youth of the 1960s and early 1970s
- 1960's
- the decade that was the time of several major events in United States history: the Civil Rights Movement, initially a non-violent movement led by Martin Luther King, Jr. and other Gandhian figures but later producing radical offshoots such as the Black Power movement and competing with the Black Panther Party and the Black Muslims for primacy in the African-American community
- Grateful Dead
- an American psychedelia-influenced rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco; the band was known for its unique and eclectic songwriting style—which fused elements of rock, folk music, bluegrass, blues, country, jazz, psychedelia, and gospel
- moas
- were giant flightless birds native to New Zealand; they are unique in having no wings, not even small wing; ten species of varying sizes are known, with the largest species, the giant reaching about 10 ft in height and about 550 lb in weight