1 leaves textbook pg 8-9

Chlorophyll
M leaves are green because they
contain a
green pigment called chlorophyll
that captures energy from light .

1. chloroplast

2. Leaves have green pigment called chlorophyll that is needed to

absorb sunlight whereas roots don't .

3. A molecule of chlorophyll stops and they get broken slowly .

so leaves turn into yellow or

pale green .

The structure of a leaf how a leaf is adapted for

photosynthesis

the leaf looks green because

its cells contain chlorophyll
the veins carry water to
the cells in the leaf they
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also help support the

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leaf and hold it out flat :

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the leafstalk attaches most leaves are thin,

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the leaf to the planet reach all the
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light can

cells inside them .

Inside a leaf