What is a leaf?

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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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Page 1: What is a leaf?

What makes leaves green? What is Photosynthesis:

Why Leaves Change: Which pigments make which colors?:

What is a leaf?

Leaf Essay

Page 2: What is a leaf?

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

Page 3: What is a leaf?

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

Page 4: What is a leaf?

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

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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

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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

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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.