Question

Deforestation has an alarming effect on
(a) increase in grazing area
(b) sunlight
(c) weed control
(d) soil erosion or desertification of habitat

Answer 1

Answer:

d) soil erosion or desertification of habitat

Answer 2

Deforestation has an alarming effect on the (d) soil erosion or desertification of habitat.

• Deforestation refers to the planting, clearing, and converting a rain forest or any similar habitats into a less bio-diverse areas, such as a farmland, cropland, or plantations.
• Deforestation is the removal, reduction, or deterioration of an area's forest cover.
• It causes fuel wood to shrink, reduced supply of timber, climate change, flash flooding, soil erosion, cyclones and droughts, desertification etc. Thus, it majorly leads to soil erosion or desertification of habitat.