Transcript Leaf Essay

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