Use the graph to help you answer the questions that follow. 1. Calculate the average increase in southern sea otter population size. If this population continued to grow
at a constant rate, when should it have reached the delisting threshold of 3,090 animals?
2. Are otter reproductive patterns more like r-selected species or K-selected species? What are the
implications of this reproductive pattern?
3. What shape would you expect the otter's survivorship curve to take? Consider their high juvenile
mortality rate.
4. Design an experiment to test a hypothesis about the effect of one of the factors described on sea otter
population size.

step 1 ammonium can be absorbed by plants, but some is converted into nitrates which are better for plants to absorb. this is called nitrification. 2. step 2 the deer eats the plants and uses the nitrogen-containing proteins for cell growth. 3. step 3 bacteria in the soil conduct nitrogen fixation to convert nitrogen gas from the atmosphere into ammonium. 4. step 4 some of the nitrates are absorbed back into plants, but denitrification breaks down the nitrates into nitrogen gas released back into the atmosphere. 5. step 5 nitrogen is found in the urine, which gets broken down into ammonium through the process of ammonification. 6. step 6 plants absorb the ammonium and begin assimilation, the process to add the nitrogen to protein.

it provides an alternative energy pathway for the reaction to proceed.

a catalyst is a substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction but is not consumed during the course of the reaction.

catalysts increase the rate of reaction without being used up. they do this by lowering the activation energy needed. with a catalyst, more collisions result in a reaction, so the rate of reaction increases. different reactions need different catalysts.

a catalyst works by providing an alternative reaction pathway to the reaction product. the rate of the reaction is increased as this alternative route has a lower activation energy than the reaction route not mediated by the catalyst.

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i))the process of preparing food by green plants in the presence of sunlight is called photosynthesis.

ii) leaf is the site for photosynthesis.

iii) it takes place as,

6h2o+6co2=c6h12o6+602