Key terms & definitions

A society in which people of different racial backgrounds participate together with equal rights, rather than being separated by race.

Participation in the wider community while being able to retain one's own cultural identity and heritage.

People from different backgrounds participating together in education, employment and community life.

Using media to connect with others, gain material for conversation or feel part of a group or community.

Remaining faithful to moral principles, including when doing so is difficult or costly.

The ethical principle of being honest, accurate, fair and consistent, remaining objective and avoiding exploitation and conflicts of interest.

A person engaged in work involving specialised knowledge or ideas, such as a writer, academic, journalist or scientist.

A creation of the human mind, such as software code, an invention or a brand logo, over which legal rights can exist.

Legally protected creative material or branding which can be used commercially, including through authorised adaptations and licensing.

People engaged in academic, cultural or specialist work, such as professors, writers, editors and engineers.

Information gathered and assessed to help governments identify threats and make decisions.

The ability to learn, understand and reason. Piaget viewed intelligence as developing through interaction with the environment and changes in thinking.

A system of spies, informants and contacts used to gather information about threats.

A numerical score intended to measure a person’s intelligence and reasoning ability.

A numerical score intended to measure a person's intelligence and reasoning ability, relevant to discussions of selection by measured ability.

The customers or users for whom a product is designed and sold.

An increase in a tropical cyclone’s strength, including stronger winds.

The strength of earthquake shaking at a particular place, assessed using its effects on people, objects and buildings.

A measure of the strength of detected radiation, usually shown on the vertical axis of a spectrum.

The rate at which radiation transfers energy per unit area, measured in watts per square metre (W/m²).

The power carried by radiation per unit area, measured in watts per square metre ($\mathrm{W/m^2}$).

How hard a performer trains, for example their running pace or the resistance they lift.

Farming that uses high levels of inputs, such as fertilisers, machinery or animal feed, to produce a high output per unit area.

Raising many animals under closely controlled conditions to increase the efficiency and output of food production.

Farming designed to produce a high yield of crops or livestock from a given area, using substantial inputs such as energy, feed, fertilisers or technology.

The purpose or aim behind what someone chooses to do.

An effect involving two objects in which each object exerts a force on the other.

A mutual action between two objects in which each exerts a force on the other.

A sociological perspective that examines how interactions between individuals and small groups create meanings and shape identities and behaviour.

A pair of equal-sized, opposite-direction forces of the same type that two interacting objects exert on one another.