Key terms & definitions

A data type that organises a sequence of typed items, which can be accessed using indices.

A hierarchical diagram showing how a whole problem or system is divided into smaller tasks.

An interview using the same prepared questions, normally in the same order, for each respondent.

An interview in which every participant is asked the same prepared questions, using the same wording and order.

An approach to developing programs by breaking a problem into manageable sub-problems and implementing their solutions as organised, connected subroutines.

Darwinian language for the pressures on organisms competing to survive and reproduce. It does not mean that survival always belongs to the strongest or most intelligent.

A public meeting at which people accused of being enemies of the revolution were denounced and humiliated; attacks on landlords could also involve physical violence.

A public meeting in which an accused person was denounced, humiliated and pressured to confess supposed political offences, sometimes with physical violence.

A structural member that resists a pushing force, or compression.

A movement in which students organised demonstrations and other campaigns against US involvement in Vietnam.

The change in an area's housing and services associated with a high concentration of students, often living in subdivided rental properties.

An American student organisation that helped organise opposition to the Vietnam War through campus protests and demonstrations.

The dominant organisation of classical Hollywood filmmaking around major studios which brought together performers, writers, technicians and production facilities.

Abnormally slow or limited plant growth.

A Buddhist structure that may contain sacred relics and can serve as a focus for reverence and reflection.

The killing of seven men associated with Bugs Moran's rival gang in Chicago on 14 February 1929. Attackers linked to Capone's gang used police disguise, lined the victims against a wall and shot them. No one was prosecuted for the massacre.

The way a writer expresses ideas through choices such as vocabulary, sentence patterns, imagery and direct address.

The arrangement and treatment of a building or artwork’s features, such as its architectural form, decoration or lettering.

A representation simplified into recognisable shapes or patterns rather than shown entirely realistically.

Recurring formal choices or concerns that make a filmmaker’s work recognisable.

A pointed writing implement used to inscribe wax tablets.

A trade name for extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam insulation, not the technical name for expanded polystyrene (EPS).

Land-based processes, including weathering and mass movement, that act on exposed coastal slopes rather than directly through wave action.

A group of components assembled separately to form a section of a larger product.

A particle smaller than an atom that forms part of its structure, such as an electron, proton or neutron.

A particle smaller than an atom, such as a proton, neutron or electron.

A particle smaller than an atom, such as a proton, neutron or electron.

A particle smaller than an atom that forms part of its structure, such as a proton, neutron or electron.

A structure within a cell that carries out a particular function, such as a mitochondrion or ribosome.

A structure within a cell, such as a nucleus, mitochondrion or ribosome.