Which organizational pattern shows cause and effect in a sequence like drought -> crop failure -> higher prices?

• A. Chronological order
• B. Cause-and-effect (causal) pattern
• C. Compare-and-contrast
• D. Spatial sequence

Answer: (B)

Understanding how events influence each other helps you see this as a cause-and-effect chain. In a cause-and-effect pattern, one event (the cause) produces another event (the effect), and that effect can itself become a new cause for the next outcome. Here, drought is the cause that leads to crop failure, and the crop failure then leads to higher prices. The relationship shown is not just a sequence in time—it explicitly links each step as a consequence of the previous one. A chronological arrangement could list the events in order, but it wouldn’t inherently highlight why drought leads to higher prices; the causal pattern makes that link clear.