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 * You've read the eBook Elephants Under Pressure and you've watched Assignment America.**
 * 1) **Which gave you more detailed and fact-based information about elephants and elephant society? Justify your answer with examples.** Elephants Under Pressure. It gave more details and was all facts, like the fact that elepahnts are attacking humans because they are separating the elepahnts from their families and homes.
 * 2) **Which was the most successful in helping you to understand animal relationships? Justify your answer with examples.** Assignment America. It gave a story of the friendship between a dog and an elephant, and how the elephant felt when the dog was hurt.


 * Watch the movie How Wolves Change Rivers.**
 * 1) **Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the video.** Scientists discovered that without wolves in Yellowstone to hunt prey, the elks grew large and ate all the trees until there were none. This affected the homes of other animals and plants in bad ways and the ecosystem became unbalanced.
 * 2) **Discuss how the photography and sound tract help to support the scientific information and help to develop a deeper understanding of factors that influence the ecology of the area.**
 * 3) **Who created this video? What is the producer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information?** Emily Gertz, a producer of Popular Science.


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> **How might controlling the migration of elephants impact the environment? Justify your answer.** By controlling the migration of elephants would impact the enviroment because they would cause less accidents and wouldn't destroy that much land.
 * 1) **Apply what you have learned about the Yellowstone environment to the environment in Asia where the elephants live. Write a prediction:**
 * 1) ****Compare and contrast the facts presented in the Yellowstone video with the facts presented in the Yellowstone news article.**** The video is promoting it and the article is uncovering negative facts while also giving positives facts.

**Summary - Discuss the following: Why is important to understand**

 * 1) **Who created a message?** Emily Gertz, a producer of Popular Science.
 * 2) **What is the ta****rget audience?** The target audience are kids or adults studying the changes in the enviroment when you add or extract a specie from it.
 * 3) **What creative techniques can be used to attract attention?** Using pictures, videos, and sounds that goes with the theme.
 * 4) ****H**ow might different people understand a message differently?** Some people might understanding this and do something about it to help, other might not care, and others may care about it but don't have the ability to do something about it.
 * 5) **Why is a message being sent?** The message is being sent to raise awareness and to inform people about how without wolves the plants in Yellowstone were decreasing because of all the animals eating ir. By having the the wolves there the balance is made, beacuse the wolves kill the other animals that eat all the plants.