Kid Question: Why is Grass Green?

As I said at the top of the post, there are many levels of answers to questions such as this. Given that this blog is aimed at “babies, toddlers and kids” I went for a fairly simple one, but it’s certainly ‘adequate’ to answer a five year old, the one who asked the question.

And having looked for answers, it seems to be a combination of ‘chlorophyll is really good at its job, probably good enough to make up for the inefficiency’ and ‘things that appear first have an advantage.’ Saying we’re not sure why it happened is only inadequate if you think we know everything – there are lots of things we don’t know yet. There are even lots of things we’ll never know, especially things that happened in the past.

It’s always possible that there is a more specific or well-supported answer that I’ve missed. Seeing this blog is about learning and sharing information, please feel free to share your answer with us.