The rise of agriculture-based urban societies created an environmental impact far exceeding that of hunting-and-gathering societies. Forests were cut down and grasslands were plowed up to provide vast areas of crop land and grazing land to feed the growing populations of these emerging civilizations and to provide wood for fuel and for buildings. Such massive land clearing destroyed and altered the habitats of many forms of plant and animal wildlife, endangering their existence and in some cases causing or hastening their extinction.

The pattern of organization the writer employs is
a. comparison.
b. summary.
c. cause-effect.


c. cause-effect.

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