Answer:
the answer is c.
oceanic acidification is occurring, which results in shelled creatures, clams, lobster, to have weaker shells as a defense. the shells break easily and are too weak to protect the organisms inside, unable to properly calcify their shells leaves them vulnerable to preditors...
Carbon is an important component in living things as it is present in the food of living things in the form of saccharides such as glucose and polysaccarhides such as starch. Hence the answer to this problem should have to be A. Carbon is a source of energy.