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- 4. a naturally occurring element of Earth; an essential building block of organic compounds
- 7. a sugar composed of six carbon atoms that is the preferred energy source for most cells; produced by photosynthesis
- 8. the process by which one or more substances change to produce one or more different substances
- 9. the process of obtaining energy from the breaking of chemical bonds in nutrients
- 10. the ability of a system to do work; required for changes to happen within a system
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- 1. the simplest unit of a chemical compound that can exist, formed when two or more atoms join together chemically
- 2. a gas that is a natural component of the atmosphere; produced by cells during cellular respiration and used by plants and other organisms for photosynthesis
- 3. the movement of elements or molecules through a repeated sequence of events
- 5. a gas produced by plants during photosynthesis that animals use for respiration
- 6. anything that has volume and mass