Microtus Essays

Name: Chan Hiu Ching Student ID: 4020618 Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a documentary directed by Angela Sun in 2014. This spectacular documentary is about the devastating drawbacks of plastic production and offers a glimpse of garbage island in the North Pacific. Near the beginning of the documentary, the director interviews some citizens at a beach and finds out they do not realize the extent of the problem. In order to investigate the problem

Describe how human impacts are causing many species to become endangered or go extinct. Humans do a lot of bad things, that cause many species to go extinct or become endangered. One of the biggest problems is human predation. Humans do a lot of harm by hunting. They erased the megafauna mammals of the last Ice Age, decreased the population of whales and other marine mammals, and wiped out the Dodo Bird and the Passenger Pigeon. Another problem is that animals lose their habitat. Mostly, animals

Water bottles, a major controversy in the world of recycling and on the other hand litter. Do you know what happens in our oceans and world when plastic is thrown out or littered? There are many dangerous and harmful effects when this happens. Water bottles are creating a pile of trash in the ocean and on land, and to top it all off we’re the ones who started and created this disaster. I think that plastic water bottles should be banned because it’s pricey and expensive to the economy and to the

Testing interdependence of rodent population and cereal plant density Candidate name: Glakho Robakidze Candidate number: European School (code 6343) Session: May 2017 My personal interest In this experiment I investigated the correlation between the presence of rodents and the coverage of the field by cereal plants. I like hiking and often while hiking I come across rodent holes in grassy meadows, so I thought about the dependence of grasses (mainly cereals) and rodent population and

It is quite astonishing to take a small moment out of your day to just stop everything and observe what is happening in nature. One perceives so much more by overserving interactions and occurrences in a particular area, which begins to trigger a series of questions such as why things are happening in the certain way that they are or perhaps, why not? One can gather evidence on the historical influences within the area based on observation like disturbance, substrate and topography, which can begin