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

ng happen

what happens

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