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AROUND AND ABOUT WITH THE...
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OUTSIDE I
... AND WATCH THE CHANGING COLOURS
t’s autumn – the time of year when the leaves on the trees go from green to lots of other glorious colours, what better time is there to
get outside?
If you’re planning on getting outside to admire the colours of autumn, it might be handy to know why leaves change colour. We chatted to the guys at www.
sciencemadesimple.com to find out why it happens.
They said: “Leaves are nature’s food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide from the air. Plants use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose. Oxygen is a gas in the air that we need to breathe. Glucose is a kind of sugar. Plants use glucose as food for energy and as a building block for growing.
“The way plants turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugar is called photosynthesis. That means ‘putting together with light’.
“A
chemical called chlorophyll helps make photosynthesis happen.
Chlorophyll is what gives plants
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Learning to Make A Difference their green colour.
“As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how the trees know to begin getting ready for winter. “During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. The trees will rest, and live off the food they stored during the summer.
“They begin to shut down their food- making factories. The green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. As the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange colours. Small amounts of these colours have been in the leaves all along. We just can’t see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll.
“The bright reds and purples we see in leaves are made mostly in the fall. In some trees, like maples, glucose is trapped in the leaves after
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photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn cause the leaves turn this glucose into a red colour. The brown colour of trees like oaks is made from wastes left in the leaves.”
All you need to do know is memorise that and then impress your kids! Happy autumn watching!
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