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Green
plants make food in their leaves in a special food-making process called “photosynthesis.”
Green
plants make food in their leaves in a special food-making process called
“photosynthesis” (pronounced foe toe SIN three siss), a word meaning “putting
together with light.”
A
leaf manufactures food by taking carbon dioxide from the air and water from the
soil and changing them into simple sugars.
To
do this, it also needs sunlight and green plant material called “chlorophyll.” This name means “leaf green,” and is the
material that gives plants their green color.
The
chlorophyll uses the energy of sunlight to change the carbon dioxide gas and
water into sugar.
Once
the sugar is made, the plant changes it into starch and other foods it needs to
grow. To
make some foods it needs minerals from the soil.
Some
plants, such as mushrooms and mistletoe, have no leaf green, and cannot make
their own food. They
must live on food green plants have made.–Dick Rogers
