Why do leaves change colors?
As the weather gets colder, the green chlorophyll in the leaves begins to disappear, revealing red and orange colors underneath.
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Trees respond to the decreasing amount of sunlight by producing less and less chlorophyll. Less sunlight. ChaCha!
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Along with the green pigment are yellow to orange pigments, carotenes and xanthophyll pigments which, for example, give the MORE
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Sunlight and cool nights of autumn cause leaves to turn glucose into a red color. Brown is made from wastes left in the leaves.
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Three factors influence autumn leaf color-leaf pigments, length of night, and weather, but not quite in the way we think....More?
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The green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. As the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange colors. ChaCha
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Its part of nature they die for new leaves to come
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