Key terms & definitions

An automatic legal right protecting original creative work, including software code, and allowing its owner to control copying, adaptation and distribution.

UK legislation that protects creators’ intellectual property, including copyright in software, photographs, music and films.

The loss of colour in corals when they are stressed, including by unusually warm seawater.

A small coral animal. Reef-building coral polyps usually contain photosynthetic algae within their tissues.

A marine structure built from the accumulated hard skeletons of tiny animals called coral polyps, providing a habitat for many other organisms.

A construction technique in which successive stone courses project inwards beyond those below, gradually closing the space above.

The Congress of Racial Equality, a civil rights organisation that supported non-violent direct action and organised the first Freedom Ride in 1961.

The powerful, developed economies that dominate trade and production in Frank’s dependency theory.

Earth's central region, associated with the source of its magnetic field.

The internal layer or structure of a board, between its outer faces.

The main group of people a media product regularly attracts and serves.

The temperature of the body's internal tissues and organs, rather than the temperature at its surface.

Awareness of oneself and the surroundings in the present moment.

An area where investment, economic activity, infrastructure and employment opportunities are concentrated.

Sewing thread made with a continuous filament core surrounded by a covering of short fibres, combining the properties of the core and covering.

A yarn with a central core surrounded by other fibres; an elastane core provides stretch and recovery.

Strength in the muscles around the trunk, helping a performer maintain posture and control movement.

The temperature at the centre or thickest part of a food, rather than its surface or the surrounding oven.

A Greek helmet design with extensive head and face protection, including a nose guard, cheek protection and openings for the eyes.

The deflection of moving air caused by Earth's rotation; it helps tropical cyclones rotate anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

The transparent front part of the eye that bends incoming light.

Legislation restricting imported grain to protect domestic producers; the Corn Law of 1815 limited imports until British grain prices reached a specified level.

British laws restricting imports of grain to protect domestic producers and maintain grain prices. ‘Corn’ meant grain, including wheat.

A horn of plenty: a symbol associated with abundance and prosperity.

A ‘horn of plenty’, representing abundance; an attribute of Hades.

Blood vessels that supply the heart muscle itself with oxygenated blood.

A blood vessel that supplies the heart muscle with blood containing oxygen and glucose.

Surgery that creates a new route for blood to flow around a narrowed or blocked coronary artery.

A blood vessel used to create a new route for blood around a narrowed or blocked coronary artery.

An operation that provides a new route for blood to flow around a narrowed or blocked coronary artery.