Write a scientific explanation that explains why the tree-frog species are different colors. Claim: [Fill in the Blanks with your answer]

Evidence: [Fill in the Blanks with your answer]

Reasoning: [Fill in the Blanks with your answer]

Claim: Various factors can tree frogs to change color, such as outdoor temperature, brightness of light and moistness of the air.

Evidence:  According to the National Wildlife Foundation "Tree frogs can be a variety of colors, but most of the species found in the United States are green, gray, or brown. Some of them, like the squirrel tree frog (Hyla squirella), are chameleon-like in their ability to change color."

Reasoning: Other factors can cause the variation of colors in tree frogs, these can be used as defense mechanisms to protect or camouflage themselves among their surroundings

Explanation:

To answer these types of questions you just go through it as a process step by step.

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