How Do Trees Extract CO2?

Trees take in carbon dioxide from the air, just like we take in oxygen when we breathe.

Imagine you're eating a big sandwich, that's like what trees do with CO2, except they turn it into food for themselves. They use something called sunlight to help them do this.

Trees have special skin, kind of like ours, we call it leaves. When the sun shines on the leaves, a little party starts inside the tree. It's like when you mix two ingredients together and get something new.

The tree takes in CO2, splits it apart, and uses part of it to make sugar, which is their food. The other part becomes oxygen, which we breathe out when we exhale.

Once the tree has made its sugar, it keeps some of it inside its body, like how you save your favorite toy in a box. That means the CO2 that was once in the air is now stored safely inside the tree, kind of like putting away your toys for later!