A forest was recently disturbed, and several pioneer species have moved in. Which type of ecological succession is taking place? How do you know?

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.

while the heads of the phospholipid structure attract water, the tails are hydrophobic. the model shows how the hydrophilic section folds around the fluid molecules to bring them into the cell so they don’t need to pass through the hydrophobic tails.