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In the video, Plastic Oceans it mentioned facts about water that I was surprised about. For example, microplastics can be mistaken for fish by the sea water chicks, the plastics then stay in their body, and the birds don't know any better, so they keep eating the microplastics. The microplastics add up over time and eventually kill them. Not many chicks make it to adulthood because of the pollution. Water pollution is not only affecting birds. About 3.5 million pieces of new plastic enter the…

Overview Bora Bora, French Polynesia, a small island northwest of Tahiti, is a beautiful vacation spot with the right amount of peace, relaxation and amusement. “Bora Bora, the land of coral beaches, pink ginger and tropical perfumes will be the bit of paradise you return to in your dreams, time after time”(Williams 15+). When traveling in Bora Bora, people can go around the whole island in only one day. Bora Bora is known as the best island around. It is also known as the most romantic…

idea that “He who holds Alaska will hold the world,” became popular during the Second World War and focused attention on a little known theater of that war. Alaska was a gateway for both the United States and Canada to the Pacific. Though the United States already had the Pacific coastline with Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Washington, Alaska was strategically useful for trade, resources, and even possibly war. While some American decision-makers found strategic value in the Aleutian Islands…

Blue Whale My animal is the Blue Whale. It is an endangered species. Endangered means that a animal or plant in danger of extinction in the near future throughout most or all of the world. Threatened means any species likely to become an endangered species in the near future throughout all or a significant portion of its range as defined in the Endangered Species Act. Blue whales are mainly found in open oceans from the icy waters of the very near Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere to the…

Feher and Tirdea assert depending on the size of the pieces it can look like a clear plastic soup. Le Guem adds sea vortex areas are fluid and their size and shape change. Le Guem reports that the largest area in the North Pacific is estimated to have attracted 3.5 million tons of debris and covers an area twice as large as the United States. Feher and Tirdea thinks there are five other large swirls in our oceans where waste is also crowded, including one in the Atlantic. Pek…

Nautical voyages conducted and captained by men such as James Cook, Charles Darwin and John Ross were some of the main driving forces that helped the scientific community to map and geographically understand the world as we see it today. One explorer in particular, James Clark Ross, and his southern artic expedition of 1839 resulted in the charting of much of the continents coastline as well as the southern seas. All of the great voyages during this time period held their own discoveries and…

Chile covers 756,950 square kilometers of land (292,258 square miles). It never gets wider than 240km (150 miles), but it is over 2,800 miles long. It is almost twice the size of California. Chile also includes two islands: Juan Fernandez Islands and Easter Island. More than 17.8 million people live in Chile. Santiago, the capital city, has a population of 308,000, but when counting Santiago Metropolis 6.68 million people live in that area. This is the largest city. The next on the list is the…

Salvation speech Hawaii a place that used to be referred to as "paradise" has now been converted into "hell". We live in post apocalyptic Hawaii, where supplies are decreasing very quick. A big corporation supervises the production of kelp which has contracted a disease. We can no longer consume kelp. We live in the year 2300 where there is plenty of advanced technologies, so we expect a cure and medical attention for those who are sick. Scientists here are trying to figure out a solution but…

Living in the “land of opportunity” allows you to control your life and became the success you to control your life and become the success you have always wanted to be. The american dream incorporates everything from freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available for every american. Through the use of the american education system, the rights given to us from the Declaration of Independence, and the motivation for success, anyone in america can reach the american dream.…

A study into the sexual dimorphism of head length in comparison to body length in the male and female Tenerife Lizard Gallotia galloti Introduction The Canary Islands archipelago is comprised a chain of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The largest of these islands being Tenerife with an area of 2,058km2and is located 270km of the coast of northwest Africa (Thorpe and Baez, 1987). The Tenerife lizard Gallotia galloti are an endemic species to the Canary Islands (Bohórquez-Alonso et al.,…