Disasters
Across
- 1. a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
- 3. a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds
- 5. darkness resulting from the extinction of lights
- 10. a slide of large masses of snow, ice and mud down a mountain
- 12. an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area
- 13. the process of wearing or grinding earth down
- 14. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto land
- 15. a shortage of rainfall
Down
- 2. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- 4. vibration from underground movement along a fault plane
- 6. an outbreak of a pandemic disease.
- 7. an atmospheric system in which air circulates rapidly
- 8. a situation in which there is not enough food for a great number of people
- 9. resulting from a destructive sea wave
- 11. a fissure in the earth's crust through which gases erupt