Biology/Chemistry question

Hi! I have a question about homework I'm doing. It involves chlorophyll and white light and all that fun stuff... anyways, here's the question!

'Explain why leaves are green. Begin your explanation with white light coming from the sun and ending in your eye.'

I understand that leaves are green because they reflect green wavelengths of light, and that white light is the combination of all of the colors of the visible light spectrum. I don't really understand how to answer this question, though. If anyone could help out, I'd really appreciate it!

You have already answered it beautifully in your question. We see green and shades of green because the green light of the spectrum is reflected off of the chlorophyl. Very little is absorbed and used by the plant.

chlophyll has the following absorbance spectrum

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so it abosrbs red and blue

the combination of the wavelengths not getting abosrbed combine in our eyes to look green