GCSE Religious Studies Unit 2 (Religion and Society) Keywords

Keywords

• Natural Resources- naturally occurring oils and fertile land, which can be used by humans.
• Global Warming- temperature of Earth's atmosphere(caused by Greenhouse effect).
• Conservation- protecting & preserving natural resources and environment.
• Creation- act of creating universe, or the universe which has been created.
• Environment- surroundings in which plants and animals live on which they depend on to live.
• Stewardship- looking after something so it can be passed on to the next generation.
• Artifical Insemination- injecting semen into uterus by artifical means.
• Embyro- fertilised egg in first eight weeks after conception.
• In-vitro fertilisation (IVF)- method of fertilising a egg in a test tube. When an egg from woman is fertilised outside of womb using either husband's or donors sperm then replaced in womb.
• Artificial insemination by husband (AIH)- husband sperm inserted into his wife through mechanical means.
• Artifical insemination by donor (AID)- when anonymous man donates sperm which is mechanically inserted into the mother.
• Egg Donation- when an egg is donated by another women, fertilised by IVF using husband's sperm then placed in the wife's womb by mechanical means.
• Embryo Donation- when both egg and sperm come from donors, fertilised with IVF then inserted into the wife's womb mechanically.
• Infertility- not being able to have children.
• Surrogacy- arrangement where woman bears a child on behalf of another woman or where an egg is donated and fertilised by the husband through IVF and then implanted into wife's uterus.
• Organ donation- giving organs to be used in transplant surgery. 
• Crime- an act against the law.
• Judgement- the act of judging people and their actions.
• Justice- due allocation of reward and punishment/the maintance of what is right.
• Law- rules made by Parliament and enforceable by the courts.
• Capital Punishment- the death penalty for a crime or offence.
• Deterrence- idea that punishments should be of such a…