<span>Fossil
fuels represent carbon storage areas. Carbon that is locked in these
fossil fuels does not cycle through the Earth. When humans burn fossil
fuels, the stored carbon is released into the atmosphere as carbon
dioxide. The carbon is then free to cycle through the Earth and can
upset the natural balance of the carbon available, changing the way that
processes occur on Earth.</span>
It is called a population since they are all the same species
I believe the answer would be A, because if water didn’t exist, there would be no presence of living things on earth. Water is a resource for life, thus, presence of living things.