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Why do leaves change colour? In the autumn some trees lose their leaves. The tree takes out all the green colour from the leaf to store in the tree trunk. The colours that we see are the colours left in the leaves. |
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Cobwebs Spiders spin webs by making their own silk. These webs are very strong. They can trap insects that fly into them. When an insect has been caught, the spider wraps the insect in more silk until it is ready to eat it! Yum! |
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Berries
These are the red berries of the hawthorn tree. Birds love to eat
them but they spit out the seed because it is so big. This seed then
grows into a new hawthorn tree.
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Hibernate Some animals go to sleep when it begins to get colder in the autumn. This is called hibernation. They wake up when the weather starts to get warmer again.
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Mushrooms Mushrooms like the autumn because they grow on all the dead leaves that fall from the trees. Mushrooms come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.
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Pumpkins Pumpkins become ripe in the autumn. This means they are ready to be eaten by animals. What other fruit and vegetables become ripe in the autumn?
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