What pattern of organization arranges elements in a 'because this happened, this resulted' sequence?

• A. Climatic pattern
• B. Circumstantial evidence
• C. Cause-effect pattern
• D. Clique

Answer: (C)

Cause-and-effect is the pattern that arranges information by showing how one thing leads to another. When you say “because this happened, this resulted,” you’re mapping a chain of causation: the cause produces the effect. This helps explain why something occurred or what result follows from a specific action. For example, heavy rainfall caused flooding, so residents were evacuated. The climactic pattern builds toward a peak rather than linking cause to effect, circumstantial evidence refers to a type of proof rather than a sequencing method, and a clique is a social group, not a way to organize information.