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What makes leaves green?What is Photosynthesis: Why Leaves Change:Which pigments make which colors?: What is a leaf? Leaf Essay.

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1 What makes leaves green?What is Photosynthesis: Why Leaves Change:Which pigments make which colors?: What is a leaf? Leaf Essay

2 What makes leaves green?What is Photosynthesis: Why Leaves Change:Which pigments make which colors?: What is a leaf? Food Factory, absorbs sunlight Leaf Essay

3 What makes leaves green? Chlorophyll-green pigment What is Photosynthesis: Why Leaves Change:Which pigments make which colors?: What is a leaf? Food Factory, absorbs sunlight Leaf Essay

4 What makes leaves green? Chlorophyll-green pigment What is Photosynthesis: Process that plants make food Uses water, CO2, sunlight’ Creates sugars Why Leaves Change:Which pigments make which colors?: What is a leaf? Food Factory, absorbs sunlight Leaf Essay

5 What makes leaves green? Chlorophyll-green pigment What is Photosynthesis: Process that plants make food Uses water, CO2, sunlight’ Creates sugars Why Leaves Change: right weather conditions: Warm sunny days Cool not freezing nights Which pigments make which colors?: What is a leaf? Food Factory, absorbs sunlight Leaf Essay

6 What makes leaves green? Chlorophyll-green pigment What is Photosynthesis: Process that plants make food Uses water, CO2, sunlight’ Creates sugars Why Leaves Change: right weather conditions: Warm sunny days Cool not freezing nights Less light Which pigments make which colors?: orange, -carotenoids Red and purple- anthocyanins Yellow, gold-xanthrophyll Brown-tannin What is a leaf? Food Factory, absorbs sunlight Leaf Essay

7 Now use your planner to write your leaf essay. Remember to: Indent your first sentence. Include an introductory sentence. Vary your sentence structure(use transitional words) Provide a concluding sentence that includes an opinion and/or a restatement.

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