Cause and Effect Relationships Flashcards
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When the school introduced a daily reading period, students read silently for twenty minutes each morning. Teachers reported that vocabulary scores on monthly assessments improved steadily over the school year. Comprehension scores also rose.
Answer: The daily reading period led to steadily improving vocabulary and comprehension scores
The reading period introduced the cause; teachers reported improved scores as the direct effect.
The factory floor became dangerously slippery after a liquid spill. Due to this hazard, a worker slipped and fractured her wrist. The company shut down the production line for a safety inspection.
Answer: The liquid spill created a hazard that caused a worker injury, leading to a production shutdown
'Due to this hazard' introduces the chain: spill → slippery floor → injury → shutdown.
A bee population collapse in the valley reduced pollination of local crops. Since many fruits and vegetables depend on bees for pollination, harvests fell sharply. Grocery prices in nearby towns increased by over twenty percent.
Answer: The bee collapse reduced pollination, leading to smaller harvests and higher grocery prices
'Since' explains the causal mechanism: fewer bees → less pollination → smaller harvests → higher prices.
The teenager left the stove burner on after making tea. As a result, a kitchen towel nearby caught fire. The smoke alarm activated and woke the family.
Answer: Leaving the burner on caused a fire, which triggered the smoke alarm and woke the family
'As a result' links leaving the burner on to the fire and the alarm.
A new transit line connected the suburb to the city center in under twenty minutes. Consequently, suburban residents began commuting downtown instead of working from home. Office occupancy in the city rose significantly.
Answer: The new transit line made commuting faster, increasing suburban residents' downtown commuting and office occupancy
'Consequently' introduces the effect of the transit line on commuting behavior and office occupancy.
The scientist failed to sterilize her equipment before the experiment. Therefore, contamination skewed the results. She had to discard months of data and begin the study again.
Answer: Failing to sterilize equipment caused contamination, invalidating the data and restarting the study
'Therefore' links not sterilizing equipment to contaminated results to discarding data and restarting.
An unusually warm winter in the Arctic melted large sections of sea ice. Since polar bears rely on sea ice to hunt seals, many bears struggled to find adequate food. Scientists recorded lower average weights among polar bears that year.
Answer: Warm temperatures melted sea ice, reducing polar bears' ability to hunt and causing weight loss
'Since' introduces the causal chain: ice melt → bears can't hunt → weight loss.