Answer:
The organizational pattern being used is A. definition.
Explanation:
This question is confusing to many people - you will actually find several claiming the answer is letter C, classification, which it is NOT. As a matter of fact, we just need to take a look at the beginning of the excerpt to identify the pattern.
The author says, "Gravity is the source of a black hole’s super pull." What is she doing here? She is defining gravity, explaining what it is, its meaning. The rest of the excerpt is a continuation of that pattern. She is offering further details to make the definition more complete. A definition pattern is easily identifiable because it often uses terms such as: <u>is, means, refers to, is called, is defined as, entails, is characterized by.</u>
"He smiles into the Hayloft dim, and the brown hay smiles back at him."
The answer is "the 1st year of the lost colonies settlements coincided with an extreme drought" and "no member of the lost Colony was ever located"
