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Look at the leaves.
Something has happened.
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The leaves were green.
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Try to think back
to springtime.
That's when the little
buds appear on the
branches of the trees.
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beginning of a new leaf.
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Each leaf is like a tiny
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The leaf uses sunlight,
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and a green matter called
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As the leaf makes food, the
chlorophyll keeps the leaf
green and healthy.
The leaf alsohas other colors
in it, but the green chlorophyll
covers them up.
Let me show you.
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See!
The green covers
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This also happens
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And with red.
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When the fall season begins,
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There is less sunlight because
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The leaf no longer makes food.
The green chlorophyll breaks
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As the chlorophyll
disappears, the other
colors show through.
The leaf begins to
change color.
Now the leaf is yellow or
orange or red or brown or
a mixture of these colors.
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Look at the leaves falling
all around us.
See the yellow ones, the
orange ones, and all
of the colors.
Now do you think you know-
why leaves change color ?
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When the leaf begins to
the leaf no longer
die,
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makes food.
The chlorophyll breaks
down and the green color
begins to disappear.
Allthe hidden colors-
the reds, yellows, /
oranges, and browns-
can be seen.
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leaves change color
We do, too
"What happened to the leaves?
They're not green anymore,"
says Christopher. "I know why"
says Squirrel. And she
takes out her crayons and
begins to draw pretty /
leaf pictures. .
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Why Do Leaves
Change Color?
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