Answer: A watery substance where cell processes take place.
Explanation: Process of elimination. The 2nd and last answer choices are both immediately wrong because cytoplasm is not a hard/solid substance. And the third answer choice is wrong because the cell membrane’s job is to prevent organelles from leaving the cell, not the cytoplasm. Therefore the answer is A, a watery substance where cell processes take place.
D. all of the above because it is in fact below the surface and on top of the saturated zone
Water falls from the clouds, it falls on trees trees take in the water as does other plants. Then synthesis kicks in with them.