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Urbanisation, Megacities and Rio de Janeiro

G Hall

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5.The positive factors that attract people somewhere new to live. (4,7)
6.The beach that Brazil is famous for. (10)
7.A rapidly growing Chinese megacity (8)
10.The largest city in the world. (5)
11.The process of improving housing where people are given cheap loans for building materials and are trained in basic construction. (4,4)
13.Rio's biggest favela, found on a steep hillside. (7)
15.The name of the large statue, with arms outstretched, looking over Rio.(3 words)
20.The general term that refers to people moving from one place to another to live (9)
21.The growth in the proportion/percentage of the population that live in towns and cities (12)
23.The name of the large bay that Rio is located on (9)
24.The negative factors why people want to, or are forced to, leave a place. (4,7)
26.A megacity that hosted the 2016 summer Olympics.(12)
29.The largest megacity in North America (3,4)
30.The continent with the greatest number of megacities. (4)
31.The geographical term for a built up area; a town or a city (5)
32.An urban area with a population over 10 million people.
33.An urban pull factor could be that there are lots of ............... so children have a better chance of education. (7)
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1.The Police ............ Unit. The department set up to tackle crime in the favelas. (12)
2.The bad aspects of a place; these can be economic, social or environmental. (10)
3.The movement of people from the countryside to the city to live (4 words)
4.The city in the UK that was the biggest in the world in the 19th century and is predicted to become a megacity.
8.An urban pull factor, lots of these will be available in factories, transport and offices.
9.The growth in the population caused by looking at the difference between birth rates and death rates. (7,8)
12.The Brazilian word for a 'slum'
14.The football stadium that hosted the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final
16.The famous, round shaped mountain in Rio. (9)
17.The continent that is predicted to have the largest urban population growth in the 21st century.(6)
18.A megacity in Nigeria that is the biggest in Africa (5)
19.The ocean that Rio is located next to. (8)
22.A new transport system that was built in the Complexo de Alemao favela. ((5,3)
25.The largest megacity in India; the world's second largest city. (5)
27.The kind of unofficial jobs, often with low pay, that many in Rio are forced to do. (8)
28.This is often bad in poorer parts of the city, leading to low life expectancy (6)

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