and with events from “the story of the three whales” open court anthology cause effect what...
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and
with events from “The Story of the
Three Whales”Open Court Anthology
Cause Effectwhat
makes somethi
ng happen
what happens
CAUSE
Most gray whales swam
south to warmer waters,
EFFECT
Arctic Ocean
when winter came early to
the Arctic Ocean in 1988.
CALIFORNIA
Pacific Ocean
Three whales swam into an Alaskan bay, so they got trapped by the ice that
formed across the
mouth of the bay. EFFECT
CAUSE
CAUSE
The three whales had no where left to
surface,
EFFECT
because the bay was
shallow and the top of the water froze
quickly.
The whales kept
ramming the ice with their
nosesuntil finally the ice
cracked and they could surface.
EFFECT
CAUSE
CAUSE
The Inuit people
accepted the whales dying as natural
EFFECT
because they had seen
whales get trapped and die before.
CAUSE
A wild life ranger came to help the
whales,
EFFECT
because news of the whales ordeal spread
by T.V. and newspapers.
The wildlife ranger began cutting
breathing holes for the
whales,so the Inuit helped by using ice poles and
chainsaws.EFFECT
CAUSE
A bulldozer tried to break
through the ice at the
mouth of the bay,
but the whales
wouldn’t go there.EFFECT
CAUSE
CAUSE
The whales would not
follow the line of holes
EFFECT
after a sky-crane
helicopter punched the holes in the
ice.
Since the whales
stayed by the shore and would not leave,polar bears
gathered and waited for
them to die.
EFFECT
CAUSE
CAUSE
Because they never saw
Kannick again,
EFFECT
something must have
happened to the smallest
whale.
CAUSE
The whales followed the
Russian icebreaker to
the open water,
EFFECT
after it cleared a channel a quarter of a mile wide in
the bay.
When the two gray whales
reached the open water,they swam
towards their herd.
EFFECT
CAUSE
andCause Effectwhat
makes somethi
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what happens
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