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

 * 1) Who created the message? The message was created by a professional person who knows lots about wolves and about the environment.
 * 2) What is the target audience? The target audience is all ages of people, but especially adults and teens who are more aware of animals and the environment and what they are actually contributing to nature.
 * 3) What creative techniques can be used to attract attention? Some creative techniques that can be used to attract attention are using lots of real beautiful pictures of the animals, also real pictures of nature and the environment. Also the music and message can have an affect that makes you interested.
 * 4) How might different people understand a message differently? Different people can understand the message differently because of many different factors. One is age and maturity, and how you really take in and understand the message they are telling. Also interest level, some people love learning and hearing about nature and animals and how they affect the world, others do not really care about this type of information they are telling us about.
 * 5) Why is the message being sent? The message is being sent because they are trying to inform you on the topic, and how the wolves actually change the rivers. To give you hope.
 * 6) Write a summary statement of the science information in the video. There is lots of science information in this video. Some things are that tropic cascades are an ecological process that starts at the top of the food chain and tumbles its way down. These wolves give life to many others. Wolves started avoiding places, trees got bigger, valleys became forest, birds came, the numbers of beavers increased, dams gave habitats to sea animals. Wolves led the bears back. and the bears fed on berries which came on to new scrubs. The wolves killed many animals, which brought in many others. Wolves changed the behavior of the rivers. There was less erosion, more pools,and the rivers changed. There was more fixed course vegetation, the soil recovered, and less erosion. Wolves, which were small in number, transformed the ecosystem and its physical geography.

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

 * 1) Who created the message? The message is created by a professional, who knows lots of information about wolves and how they are changing the environment.
 * 2) What is the target audience? The target audience is all people who are interested in this topic and they want to know about the wolves and what they are doing.
 * 3) What creative techniques can be used to attract attention? One creative technique is how they use pictures, they help us understand the text and help us visualize.
 * 4) How might different people understand a message differently?Different people understand this message differently because of interest level of the text and maturity. If you do not have an interest in this topic you will not understand this very well. Also maturity, if you are not mature you will not get these facts and really understand them and actually understand the message.
 * 5) Why is the message being sent? The message is being sent because the author is trying to inform the reader about how the wolves and how its not that simple.
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