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Suggest one reason why most leaves are thin

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A leaf is often flat, so it absorbs the most light, and thin, so that the sunlight can get to the chloroplasts in the cells. Most leaves have stomata, which open and close. They regulate carbon dioxide, oxygen, and water vapour exchange with the atmosphere.

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The leaves are thin in order to stay hanging on a tree branch because if they were too big sure they can probably stay on a tree branch but they can be in a person's way and if the leaves fell, they would hit a person in the head.

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