Which is a valid cause-and-effect relationship identified by the author?
A. The Endangered Species Act accelerates the decline of insects
such as the burying beetle.
B. Orange mites ensure the survival of beetle larvae by
eliminating competition for the carrion.
C. Populations of prairie chickens and passenger pigeons have
been reduced by the loss of the burying beetle.
D. The use of pesticides has devastated the global bee
populations.

C. Populations of prairie chickens and passenger pigeons have been reduced by the loss of the burying beetle.

Explanation:

since there isn't any suggested answers i will give you the reason and hopefully you can figure it

south africa, or rather all of africa, has not been in the location in which it is nowadays throughout the geological past. after the super-continent pangaea started to break apart, gondwanaland, in which was africa, moved further south, and parts of it came to be very close to the south pole. because the climate in this part of the world is very cold due to the very dispersed sun rays in there, what is now south africa, started to freeze, and the conditions were right for the formation of glaciers. the glaciers existed up until the period when gondwanaland started to break apart and what is now africa started to move towards north, sp it warmed up and the glaciers melted.