Weather & Natural Disasters
Across
- 1. a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding after lightning
- 5. fires that occur in forests during hot summer months
- 7. a violent destructive whirling wind accompanied by a funnel-shaped cloud
- 8. A severe storm that develops over tropical oceans
- 10. precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
- 11. an overflowing of water in a normally dry area
- 13. The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface.
- 15. Caused when electrical charges jump between parts of a cloud or between a cloud and the ground.
Down
- 2. an arc of colored light in the sky caused by the sun's rays through rain
- 3. a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
- 4. A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.
- 6. a period of very hot weather
- 9. a cloud at ground level
- 12. A long period of dry weather
- 14. ice pellets instead of rain when it's cold