An ecological footprint A) is a means of determining increases in populations that lived in the past. B) is a means of understanding resource availability and usage. C) measures dispersion and adaptability. D) will estimate population movements.

An ecological footprint is a means of understanding resource availability and usage. The correct option is B.

Explanation:

The ecological footprint is a method which is used to measure the rate as which humans use natural resources in their environment and generate waste from them compared with how fast nature can absorb these wastes and generate the used resources again. The productive areas which are measured through this means are:

--> cropland,

--> grazing land,

--> fishing grounds,

--> built-up land,

--> forest area, and carbon demand on land.

The importance of ecological footprint to the environment should no the over emphasizes. When properly observed, different environmental pollution would be dealt with. Generally, there would be:

--> decreased desertification,

--> decreased global warming

--> availability of fresh unpolluted air and

--> decreased carbon emissions.

a fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis.[1] the age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, and sometimes exceeds 650 million years.[2] fossil fuels contain high percentages of carbon and include petroleum, coal, and natural gas.[3] other commonly used derivatives include kerosene and propane. fossil fuels range from volatile materials with low carbon to hydrogen ratios like methane, to liquids like petroleum, to nonvolatile materials composed of almost pure carbon, like anthracite coal. methane can be found in hydrocarbon fields either alone, associated with oil, or in the form of methane clathrates.

the theory that fossil fuels formed from the fossilized remains of dead plants by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth's crust over millions of years was first introduced by andreas libavius "in his 1597 alchemia [alchymia]" and later by mikhail lomonosov "as early as 1757 and certainly by 1763".[4] the first use of the term "fossil fuel" was by the german chemist caspar neumann, in english translation in 1759.[5]

in 2017 the world's primary energy sources consisted of petroleum (34%), coal (28%), natural gas (23%), amounting to an 85% share for fossil fuels in primary energy consumption in the world.[6] non-fossil sources in 2006 included nuclear (8.5%), hydroelectric (6.3%), and others (geothermal, solar, tidal, wind, wood, waste) amounting to 0.9%.[7] world energy consumption was growing at about 2.3% per year. in 2015 about 18% of worldwide consumption was from renewable sources.[8]

the answer is c on e2020, bud.