Cause and Effect

Cause answers what question?

• What

• Why

• When

Which happens first: cause or effect?

• effect

• cause

Effect answers what question?

• Where

• Why

• What

I turned the volume up on the tv because I couldn't hear the program.

• effect

• cause

• neither

I had to go to the dentist, so I missed my last class.

• cause

• effect

• neither

Our car is in the shop because it needed a new muffler.

• effect

• cause

• neither

You will miss the bus if you don't get dressed quickly.

• cause

• effect

• neither

The police arrested him because he committed a crime.

• effect

• cause

• neither

She is lazy; therefore, she has failed all of her subjects.

• effect

• cause

• neither

Since I dropped my plate, I don't have anything to eat.

• cause

• effect

• neither