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Video Summary for //How the Wolves Changed Rivers//

 * 1) Who created the message?
 * Sustainable Man. I know this because at the beginning and the end of the video you see a logo and under it, it says "Sustainable Man"
 * 1) What is the target audience?
 * The target audience is anyone who wants to learn about how the wolves changed Yellowstone National Park through a trophic cascade.
 * 1) What creative techniques can be used to attract attention?
 * The font you use at the beginning of a video to show the title can show attraction. Another thing that can be used to show attraction could be the point of view of the camera like how the camera zoomed in on the wolves face to capture it predatory eyes.
 * 1) How might different people understand a message differently?
 * Some people might think that since the wolves changes Yellowstone national park it could be bad. They could also think that since the wolves haven't been in Yellowstone for 70 years why should we have reintroduced them?
 * 1) Why is the message being sent?
 * The message is being sent to show us how animals can impact the nature of things and make something worn down into something beautiful.
 * 1) Write a summary statement of the science information in the video.
 * I learned that a trophic cascade is a process in the food chain that starts at the top and trickles all the way down to the bottom. I also learned that animals can affect the environment in ways. The wolves affected the environment by killing of some of the elks. This caused all of the plants the elk had killed of to start to rejuvenate. Because the trees and plants started to grow back, the birds came and started living in the trees and the beavers started to move in because the beavers like to eat the trees and build dams with the sticks. Because of the beaver built dams, they provided habitats for the ducks, otters, and muskrats. The wolves also killed coyotes and that made the population of the rabbits and mice start to increase. Which caused hawks to come. Ravens, bald eagles, and bears started to eat the carcasses the wolves left behind so their species started to increase to. Then because the wolves had caused more plants to grow the plants stabilized the banks of the river so they collapsed.

Text Summary //for Has the Reintroduction of Wolves Really Saved Yellowstone?//

 * 1) Who created the message?
 * The message was created by Emily Gertz a popular science author.
 * 1) What is the target audience?
 * The target audience was anybody who heard about the story of how the wolves changed Yellowstone national park.
 * 1) What creative techniques can be used to attract attention?
 * At the beginning of the article there is a picture of a wolf. This is used to capture your attention and to let you know that the article has something to do with wolves. Also the article when it uses a quotes it bold it and make s it centered so it catches your attention because it is so different from the other text.
 * 1) How might different people understand a message differently?
 * They might understand that people think sending the wolves back to Yellowstone national park was a bad idea.
 * 1) Why is the message being sent?
 * This message is being sent to inform people on the other side of the story and to show some other people's point of view.
 * 1) Write a summary statement of the science information in the text.
 * I learned that there are also bad consequences for the wolves to be added back into Yellowstone such as the willow population still decreasing. The text disagreed with the video saying that the wolves didn't really affect the plants by killing only a few of them. Some of the scientists in the article say that they don't see how the wolves were that crucial to the revival of Yellowstone National Park. They say that the elks are tougher so the wolves wouldn't have scared as much of the elk as the story so says. Another thing it says is that the willow population is not actually rejuvenating as the scientists hoped. They say this is happening because the elk are still taking their chance and eating the willow trees.

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 * 1) What is the target audience?
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