D. preserve ecosystems whilst providing for human needs.
the actual definition for sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
A: if the oak trees are I'll then it would affect their health which they'll star dying which means that all the biotic organisms that depended on those oak trees for shelter would also start dying which means all the organisms that depended on the oak tree organisms would also die and so on. That way this small change will affect the whole animal community in that area.
B: this change in biodiversity will greatly affect the sustainability of the forest because the animals dying would disrupt the food chain in that ecosystem while killing the whole forest.
An obligatory parasite is a parasite that can not complete its life cycle without exploiting a suitable host
No choice given but the development of nuclear weapons could be considered a negative consequence of the application of scientific knowledge for example when it was used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing and wounding 100's of 1000's of people.