The best answer is D because construction would be bad for the environment and take up space on the soil that is trying to be preserved. Also, for C, planting only one crop type in soil is not very beneficial to the soil at all. IT is best to plant multiple crops in the soil and move the crops to different parts of the soil each year when planting them.
A.Cladograms, because those are diagrams, all the rest contribute to natural selection.
The right answer is the chloroplast.
Autotrophic species must stock up on food in order to have energy at all times.
Plants, for example, through their chloroplasts make sugar with the energy of sunlight and from soil water and carbon dioxide from the air. This sugar synthesis using light is photosynthesis.
Vance is demonstrating conceptual knowledge
Conceptual knowledge is the clear and detailed understanding of principles, concepts, models or theories and the understanding of the linking relationships between them. Conceptual knowledge is acquired by thoughtful, reflective learning, listening, reading, or viewing. From the question, Vance is demonstrating conceptual knowledge because he has the explicit understanding of why rainfall amounts affect different types of vegetation positively and others negatively.