How Nature Recycles Air
  Hello!
I'm Captain Redbird. Do you know that air is recycled by my home, the
tree? Trees, green plants and grasses all recycle air. How do they do
this? Well, like all living things, plants breathe. My home, the tree,
is a very big plant and takes in air through tiny holes (pores) in its
leaves. The green stuff in leaves is called chlorophyll. The
green stuff uses energy from the sunshine, water and mineral
salts from the ground, and a gas called carbon dioxide from the air,
to make its
food. When a tree makes food, it breathes out a gas called oxygen.
Oxygen goes into the air for me and you to breathe.
Just think, trees breathe in a gas from the air which is not good for
us, and breathe out oxygen which is necessary for us. We breathe in oxygen
which is good for us, and breathe out a gas which is not good for us,
but is used by trees and plants to make their food. How wonderful to have
lots of trees and green plants to recycle and clean the air for us. Nature
sure is wonderful!
 Let's
dig in with Captain Earthworm to learn how nature
recycles soil!
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