2.14 Self-teaching question (1)


In the following table, click on the links to see examples of different types of science news stories and complete the table to indicate which type of source the journalist was likely to have used to find each story – a primary or secondary source.
News story link Primary or Secondary Source?
Southern Africa listed as site of huge square kilometre array telescope
http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2006/october/ska.htm ]
 
Poor could benefit from simpler TB vaccine
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=287524&area=/insight/insight__africa/ ]
 
Ghana's malaria problem gets boost from vaccine trials
http://voanews.com/english/2006-10-10-voa26.cfm ]
 
Africa begins malaria vaccine trial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6047836.stm ]
 
About 60,000 gold miners to participate in TB research
http://www.buanews.gov.za/view.php?ID=06102008151005&coll=buanew06 ]
 
New findings super-size our tsunami threat
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/211012_tsunamiscience07.html ]
 
Nigerian scientists allay fears of West African tsunami
http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/nigerian-scientists-allay-fears-of-west-african-tsunami.cfm ]
 
"A shocking lack of evidence"
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7114/full/443888a.html ]
 
Bottlenecks slow Ethiopia's fight against malaria
http://www.scidev.net/content/features/eng/bottlenecks-slow-ethiopias-fight-against-malaria.cfm ]
 



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