Determine the central idea in the following passage taken from National Geographic Kids Habitat Destruction: A jaguar paces at the edge of a rainforest in Brazil. The big cat once roamed through a jungle packed with trees, but now part of its home is a working farm with herds of cattle that have taken over the jaguar’s territory.

A hundred years ago, jaguars ranged from the southwestern United States to Argentina, in South America. Today their territory has shrunk by more than half, and they live mostly in the Amazon rainforest. And jaguars aren’t the only animals losing their homes—according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, habitat loss is the main threat to about 85 percent of all endangered plant and animal species.

Question 5 options:

Jaguars and other animals are at risk of losing their homes.

Jaguars are becoming smaller than the size of their ancestors because their habitats are shrinking which is leading to smaller animals.

Habitat loss is not a threat in Brazil.

Jaguar automobiles are named after the big cat that roams through the streets of southwestern Brazil.