Do you think the adaptations of the animal you chose are a result of its environment, genes, or both? Explain your answer.

Elephants have being able to survive in the savannah due to its ability to adapt. Elephants natural have no sweet glands so they have to device other means to cool their selfs, th ey achieve this by flapping their ears to create the cooling effects they need to survive in their environment. They also posses tusk and long trunks which they used for eating and drinking. The adaptation of the elephants to the African savannah has being due to the effects of environment and the genes. A popular example is an African elephant is different from it’s counterpart from Asia. Africa elephants have bigger ears unlike Asians which are smaller

Explanation:

1. the energy lost to disorder metabolism     -entropy

2. related to or possessing motion potential     -kinetic

3. all of the chemical reactions in an organism required for maintenance of the processes of life entropy     -metabolism

4. possible; ability to go into action or perform work kinetic     -potential

5. the study of energy and its transformations thermodynamics     -thermodynamics