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Choose the word that best completes the analogy: DEFORESTATION is to TREES as EROSION is to .

1. WIND
2. RAIN
3. FLOOD
4. SOIL

Answer

D. SOIL

Solution

DEFORESTATION is the loss of TREES, just as EROSION is the loss of SOIL.

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