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Let’s look at each picture on the left (the causes) and find what happens because of it — that’s the effect.

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Picture 1: A boy is feeding birds with seeds.
→ What could happen? Birds come to eat, or maybe plants grow from spilled seeds? But wait — look at the options. One shows plants growing! That makes sense: if you drop seeds while feeding birds, they might sprout later. So Cause 1 → Effect: Plants growing.

Wait — let’s check again. Actually, in Picture 1, he’s kneeling by a bird feeder, dropping seeds. The effect should be something directly caused by that action. Looking at the right side, there’s an image of plants growing — yes, that fits: seeds fall → plants grow.

But hold on — let’s match all carefully.

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Picture 2: A boy slips on a banana peel.
→ He’s falling! Look at the bottom right — there’s a boy slipping and falling. That’s clearly the effect. So Cause 2 → Effect: Boy falling down.

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Picture 3: A boy has dirty clothes and mud on his legs.
→ Why? Maybe he played outside? But we need to pick from the effects shown. There’s a baby taking a bath — that’s cleaning up! So if he got dirty, the effect might be needing a bath. But wait — the baby is happy in the tub. Is that the effect of being dirty? Not exactly — but among the choices, bathing is the logical result of getting dirty. So Cause 3 → Effect: Taking a bath.

Actually, let’s think differently. Maybe the cause is “playing in mud” → effect is “getting dirty”. But here, the boy is already dirty — so the cause must be something that led to him being dirty. Wait — no, the instruction says: “match the causes with their effects.” So the left images are causes, right images are effects.

So for Picture 3: the cause is “boy got dirty” — then the effect would be “he takes a bath to clean up”. Yes, that works.

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Picture 4: A man is throwing trash on the beach.
→ What’s the effect? Pollution! Look at the top right — a fish trapped in plastic underwater. That’s pollution from trash. So Cause 4 → Effect: Fish hurt by plastic waste.

Wait — let’s list them properly:

Left side (causes):
1. Boy feeding birds / dropping seeds → leads to plants growing? Or maybe not — actually, looking again, the first image on the right is a fish in plastic — that’s more likely from littering.

I think I mixed them up. Let me re-match carefully.

Let’s label the right-side images as A, B, C, D for clarity:

Right side:
A. Fish in plastic bag (pollution)
B. Baby in bathtub (cleaning)
C. Plants growing (from seeds)
D. Boy slipping and falling (accident)

Now left side:
1. Boy feeding birds — drops seeds → seeds grow into plants → matches C
2. Boy slips on banana peel → falls → matches D
3. Boy covered in mud → needs bath → matches B
4. Man litters on beach → trash ends up in ocean → hurts fish → matches A

Yes! That makes perfect sense.

So final matching:

- Cause 1 → Effect C (plants grow)
- Cause 2 → Effect D (boy falls)
- Cause 3 → Effect B (baby bath — meaning, after getting dirty, you bathe)
- Cause 4 → Effect A (fish harmed by pollution)

Wait — but in Picture 3, the boy is already dirty — so the cause is “playing in mud”, and the effect is “taking a bath”. But the image shows him standing dirty — so perhaps the cause is “he played outside”, and the effect is “he got dirty”? No — the instructions say left = cause, right = effect.

Actually, looking again: the left images show actions or situations that lead to the right images.

For #3: the boy is dirty — that’s the result of some cause, but here it’s presented as the cause? Hmm.

Perhaps I have it backward. Let me read the instruction again: “Look at the images below and match the causes with their effects.”

The left column has numbers 1–4 — those are the causes. The right column has unnumbered images — those are the effects.

So:

Cause 1: Boy feeding birds → Effect: ?
If he drops seeds, plants may grow → so effect is plants growing.

Cause 2: Boy steps on banana peel → Effect: he falls → matches the falling boy.

Cause 3: Boy is muddy → this is tricky. If he’s muddy, the effect might be he takes a bath. But the bath image is a baby — still, it represents bathing. So yes.

Cause 4: Man throws trash on beach → Effect: trash pollutes ocean, harms fish → matches fish in plastic.

Perfect.

So the correct pairs are:

1 → Plants growing
2 → Boy falling
3 → Taking a bath
4 → Fish in plastic

Now, to write the answer clearly.

Final Answer:
1 - Plants growing
2 - Boy falling down
3 - Taking a bath
4 - Fish hurt by plastic pollution