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Pulling together

A rowing team is a group of people working together. If each man pulled his oar when he felt like it, the team would never get anywhere—much less win a race. So, like all teams, they have a…

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Plant Ways

Why leaves change color in autumn

Inside a leaf there are millions of tiny packages of color—yellow, orange, and green. The yellow is called xanthophyll, the orange is carotene, or carotin, and the green is chlorophyll. The green…

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Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers

Water beneath your feet

All the earth’s water isn’t in seas, lakes, ponds, and rivers. A lot of it is beneath your feet—down in the ground. When rain falls, much of the water seeps down through the soil. It keeps going…

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