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| Our tree asked when to expect his leaves to turn color and then fall. | |
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| Plants make their own food. They take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide from the air. They turn water and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. | |
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| Plants make their food using sunlight and something called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll gives leaves their green color. | |
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| Winter days are short and dry. Trees stop making food in the fall, the chlorophyll goes away and we can see orange and yellow colors that were in the leaves all summer, but the green covered them up. | |
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| Some leaves turn red. This color is made in the fall, from food trapped in the leaves. Brown colors are also made in the fall. They come from wastes left in the leaves. | |
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| So you're saying, "Don't eat the brown leaves?" | |
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