Answer:
it means to literally be half staffed and not a full proportion of workers
The answer is C.
As a science website says, "Scientists think they know why the Ancestral Puebloans disappeared. The primary culprit, studies suggest, was a megadrought that would have made it impossible to grow enough food to feed the tens of thousands of people living in the region."
If you didn't know, drought represents the lack of rain.
the answer is basically the scientific method.
