You were just hired as a sustainability consultant at Mahalo Farms to help Farmer Kelly and her family run their industrial farm in a more environmentally friendly way. Kelly lives in an area
with a dry, hot climate and she currently grows monocultures of 4 different crops. While 3 of
her crops are always successful where she lives, the 4th has not done so well in the past five
years.
Farmer Kelly is excited for you to join the team and wants to hear two of your suggestions.
Briefly explain each suggestion. *
(4 Points)

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.