Question

Native farmers in a small town are clearing massive areas of trees to plant crops. This is an example of

desertification
sharecropping
deforestation
urbanization

Answer 1

This is an example of deforestation

Answer 2

The correct answer is deforestation.

Permanent clearing of forest by various methods is called deforestation. The cleared land is used for the various purposes such as planting crops, making roads, buildings. The destruction of forest trees on mass scale is carried out in various ways such as burning of trees and cutting of trees making the land complete barren. After wards barren land is used as per the need of native people.