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How One Thing Leads to Another is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on describing the connection between events or ideas, aligned to Common Core standard RI.2.3. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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How One Thing Leads to Another

RI.2.3

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Earthquakes

The Earth's crust is not one piece. It is broken into huge slabs called plates, and the plates are always moving — about as fast as your fingernails grow. Where two plates meet, they can catch on each other. Pressure builds up for years while they are stuck. When they finally slip, all that stored energy is released at once. The ground shakes. That shaking is an earthquake. Most earthquakes are too small to feel. A few are strong enough to bring down buildings, which is why new buildings in some places are made to sway.

  1. 1. Put these in order: the ground shakes, the plates catch, pressure builds.
  2. 2. How is pressure connected to the shaking?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How Glass Is Recycled

Glass is unusual. It can be melted and remade for ever without getting any worse. Bottles are first sorted by colour. Clear, green and brown glass have to be kept apart, because you cannot make clear glass from green. The glass is then crushed into small pieces called cullet. Metal lids are pulled out with a magnet. Cullet melts at a lower temperature than the raw materials glass is made from. That means recycling glass uses less energy than making it new. The melted glass is poured into moulds and blown into new bottles.

  1. 1. Put these in order: the glass is crushed, bottles are sorted, the glass is melted.
  2. 2. How is cullet connected to using less energy?

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Answer key — How One Thing Leads to Another

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  1. 1.1. The plates catch, pressure builds, the ground shakes. 2. Pressure builds while the plates are stuck, and it is released all at once when they slip.
  2. 2.1. Bottles are sorted, the glass is crushed, the glass is melted. 2. Cullet melts at a lower temperature than the raw materials, so less energy is needed.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.2.3 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.