Q.

Cutting of forests for growing crops would:

1 reduce the stability of the ecosystem  
2 enhance the stability of the ecosystem  
3 not affect the stability of the ecosystem  
4 first increase and then decrease the stability of the ecosystem  

Ans.

(1)

Cutting a large number of trees would affect all the other organisms dependent on those plants. Many organisms would even die. Some would migrate to other places. All such events would disturb the ecological balance and thus would decrease the stability of the ecosystem.