Human Geography
The statistical study of human populations
What is demography
Most weather happens in this lowest layer of the atmosphere
Troposphere
The “Ring of Fire” surrounds this ocean
Pacific Ocean
Creating a zone of fixed distance around a point, line, or polygon
Buffer
The capital of Australia
Canberra
This model describes the shift from high birth and death rates to low ones as societies develop
Demographic Transition Model
This periodic warming of the eastern Pacific disrupts weather worldwide
El Niño
The San Andreas Fault is this type of plate boundary, where plates slide past each other
Transform boundary
Geocoding converts street addresses into these
Coordinates
Along with Paraguay, this is one of South America’s two landlocked countries
Bolivia
This term describes the movement of people from one country to another.
International Migration
In the Köppen classification, the “Af” code denotes this climate type
tropical rainforest
The Himalayas formed when the Indian Plate collided with this one
Eurasian Plate
The UTM system divides the Earth into this many longitudinal zones
60
Thanks to its overseas territories, this country spans the most time zones in the world
France
This term describes the average number of children born per woman
Total Fertility Rate
Trade winds from both hemispheres converge in this belt of low pressure and heavy rain near the equator
Intertropical Convergence Zone
Iceland sits atop this divergent boundary running down the middle of an ocean
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
This interpolation method is named after South African mining engineer Danie Krige
kriging
Liechtenstein and this Central Asian country are the world’s only two doubly landlocked countries
Uzbekistan
This term describes the process where wealthier residents move into a lower-income neighbourhood, often increasing housing cost
Gentrification
Canada’s chinook winds are an example of this warm, dry downslope wind, named for the German term
foehn (föhn) wind
The Wilson Cycle describes the repeated opening and closing of these
Ocean basins
Moran’s I is a statistic that measures this property of spatial data
Spatial Autocoorelation
In 2006 this country’s government relocated its capital from Yangon to a purpose-built city
What is Myanmar (capital: Naypyidaw)