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On a sunny morning, Mira carried her notebook into the garden and held a maple leaf up to the light. “How can you make food when you have no mouth?”
How Can a Leaf Make Food From Sunlight?Leaves use sunlight, air, and water to make sugars for the plant, releasing oxygen during the process.
1. On a sunny morning, Mira carried her notebook into the garden and held a maple leaf up to the light. “How can you make food when you have no mouth?”
2. Mira checked the leaf for a plate, a spoon, or even a crumb. It had none. But its green color seemed to be hiding a secret.
3. First, sunlight warmed the leaf. Sunlight is not food like a sandwich. It is energy, the power that helps the leaf do its work.
4. Next, air slipped through tiny openings in the leaf. One important gas in that air is carbon dioxide. It sounds grand, but it is simply a gas the leaf can use.
5. Water came up from the roots through the tree’s tiny tubes. Mira traced the stem with her finger, following the water’s invisible path.
6. Then the three clues met inside the leaf’s green cells. With sunlight’s energy, the leaf joined water and carbon dioxide and made sugar—the plant’s food. This food-making job is called photosynthesis.
7. The sugar traveled to the tree, helping it grow new leaves, roots, and branches. The leaf had made food without a kitchen, and Mira drew three big circles in her notebook.
8. Mira took a deep breath under the maple tree. Leaves use sunlight, air, and water to make sugars for the plant, releasing oxygen during the process.
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