Combined Science GCSE
recycled
What recycled means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of recycled
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Reference: AQA
Materials in the living world are passed along food chains and returned to the environment so they provide the building blocks for future organisms.
Topics that use recycled
- How materials are cycled (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Carbon cycle
- Changes of state
- Combustion
- Cycles maintaining supplies for life
- Cycling of matter
- decomposers
- Decomposition
- finite
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