Q: Clearing land for agriculture and development is a major cause of what negative result?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Clearing land for agriculture and development is a major cause of habitat destruction. Within the past 100 years, the amount of total land used for agriculture has almost doubled. Land used for grazing cattle has more than doubled. Agriculture alone has cost the United States half of its wetlands ( Figure below ) and almost all of its tallgrass prairies. Native prairie ecosystems, with their thick fertile soils, deep-rooted grasses, diversity of colorful flowers, burrowing prairie dogs, and herds of bison and other animals, have virtually disappeared ( Figure below ).

 Choices:

- water destruction

- human destruction

- mineral destruction

- habitat destruction


A:
habitat destruction