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Hey! Where are you going?
To get a jacket for the tree! It’s going to get cold out here in winter!
Oh, no! This poor tree is sick!
No, it isn’t. Trees drop their leaves in fall to get ready for winter.
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Many plants stop making food in the fall. When they stop making food, the green color in their leaves starts to disappear.
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Plants make their own food using these ingredients:
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions. with the letter in the triangle. Then read every other letter as you move along the border. Funny You Should Ask! When the rain comes down, what goes up? Find the answer in the fall leaf border! Start
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Trees take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide from the air. They use the sunlight and something called chlorophyll (clor-oh-fill) to turn water and carbon dioxide into food. Chlorophyll is green. It gives leaves their green color.
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When winter days get short and there is less sunlight, the leaf makes less chlorophyll. Then we can see orange and yellow colors. These colors were in the leaves all summer, but the green covered them up. Red leaves are another story. This color is made in the fall, from food trapped in the leaves.
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Standards Link: Life Science: Plants have structures that serve different functions in survival; plants use carbon dioxide and energy from sunlight to build sugar and release oxygen.
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