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

 * 1) **Who created the message?** Sustainable Man
 * 2) **What is the target audience?** People who are interested in the way that some animals can effect so many things in an ecosystem, and also people who are interested in the Yellowstone National Park and wolves.
 * 3) **What creative techniques can be used to attract attention?** The sounds of the wolves howling, and the music in the background.
 * 4) **How might different people understand a message differently?** Some people might be upset that a certain animal has come back because they think that it would be better without that certain animal, or that somebody may be very happy that an animal has come back. Basically, some people can think that wolves coming back is good while others may think its bad.
 * 5) **Why is the message being sent?** The message is being sent so that people can understand how important it was that the wolves came back to Yellowstone.
 * 6) **Write a summary statement of the science information in the video.** When the wolves came back to Yellowstone National Park, they lessened the deer population, and that caused a chain reaction of more animals and plant life returning to Yellowstone. The rivers changed too.

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

 * 1) ** Who created the message? **Popular Science
 * 2)  **What is the target audience?** People who are interested in the way that some animals can effect so many things in an ecosystem, and also people who are interested in the Yellowstone National Park and elk and the trees in it.
 * 3) **What creative techniques can be used to attract attention?** The word choice and how nicely it flows.
 * 4) **How might different people understand a message differently?** Some might say that the wolves saved Yellowstone, while som emay say it didnt because of the elk population.
 * 5) ** Why is the message being sent? ** The message is being sent so that people can understand how important it was that
 * 6) **Write a summary statement of the science information in the text**. Wolves made the elk population rose because of their disappearance.

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 * 1) **Who created a message?** So we know if the message is reliable or not.
 * 2) **What is the target audience?** So we know who its really intended for, and so you know if you're going to be interested in it or not.
 * 3) **What creative techniques can be used to attract attention?** So we can know why were attracted and how were being impressed by the message.
 * 4) **How might different people understand a message differently?** So we can know how people react to different things, the things they react to, and why the react
 * 5) **Why is a message being sent?** So we know what the actual message is about, and that we can know what we should be getting out of the message.