ead the passage. It has a cause-and-effect text structure. Then, complete the sentence that follows.
Red, yellow, orange, and brown—these are the colors of leaves in autumn. Why is that? It has to do with light. Trees get a lot of sunlight in the spring and summer. This causes them to make chlorophyll. That helps trees turn light into energy. And it makes the leaves green. But the days get shorter in the fall. There is less sunlight. As a result, trees make less chlorophyll. Therefore, other colors can be seen.
Complete the cause-and-effect sentence by dragging each statement to the correct box.
Because __________ in the fall, trees __________ and __________.