Level 7 ➞ Learn About ➞ Environment
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Non-Fiction Graded Readers
Titles in Level 7
What Do Clothes Cost?
Energy from the Sun
From Plan to Building
Tell Me about the Continents
The Life Cycle of a Frog
How Do Plants Grow?
The Moon
What Does the Referee Do?
Games around the World
Caves
Energy from
the Sun
Energy from the Sun
Written by Margaret MacDonald
Cover photograph of the sun
Photography by Creatas (cover, p3); Photolibrary (p1, p5); Birdwing (RJ p2 plants and people, p7, p9; Russ
p2 calculator and solar panel, p13, p15; p11)
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ISBN: 978-1-4586-4266-0
Word Count
High-Frequency
Words
263
be, day, did, from, get, have, made, make,
of, people, put, some, that, their, they,
too, us, very, with
Vocabulary Words air, Earth, energy, heat, light, nutrients,
panel, rays, sea, soil, tank, water
Energy from
the Sun
Picture Dictionary
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The sun is made of very hot gases.
The sun gives us heat and light.
Heat is energy
that makes things hot.
Light is energy, too.
Light helps us see things.
calculator
plants
people
solar panel
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Did you know
that most of the energy
we use on Earth
comes from the sun?
Every day, the sun’s rays
travel from the sun to Earth.
They warm the air,
the soil, and the water on Earth.
They light Earth.
The sun’s rays warm
the sea on Earth.
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5
We need the energy
from the sun
to live and grow.
Plants, animals, and people
cannot live without the sun.
Without the heat from the sun,
Earth would be too cold
to live on.
These boys cannot live
without the sun’s heat.
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7
Plants and the Sun
Plants need the energy
from the sun
to live and grow.
Plants use the energy from the sun
to make their food.
They make their food
by mixing the sun’s energy
with water, air, and nutrients.
Plants get nutrients from the soil.
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These plants get heat and light from
the sun, and water and nutrients
from the soil.
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A Food Chain
Animals and Plants
Animals get their energy
from the food they eat.
They eat plants that have stored
food made from the sun’s energy.
Animals also get energy
from eating other animals
that have eaten plants.
sun shines
on plants
girl eats
chicken
The energy from the sun is passed
from plants to animals.
chicken eats
caterpillar
10
plants
grow
caterpillar
eats plants
11
Using the Sun’s Light
Some calculators use the sun’s light
to work.
Some calculators have a small
panel that can trap the sun’s light.
They can store the sun’s light.
They use the sun’s light to make
the calculator work.
This calculator traps the
sun’s light during the day.
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Using the Sun’s Heat
Some people use energy
from the sun to heat
the water in their homes.
They put a solar panel
on their roof.
They tilt the panel to the sun.
The panel traps the sun’s energy.
These solar panels warm the
water and store it in a tank.
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Activity Page
Copy and complete.
1. The sun is made of hot g ______ .
2. H ___ energy comes from the sun.
3. L ___ energy comes from the sun.
4. P _____ get energy from the sun.
5. A ______ eat plants to get energy.
Do you know
the dictionary words?
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