Disasters

123456789101112131415
Across
  1. 1. a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
  2. 3. a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds
  3. 5. darkness resulting from the extinction of lights
  4. 10. a slide of large masses of snow, ice and mud down a mountain
  5. 12. an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area
  6. 13. the process of wearing or grinding earth down
  7. 14. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto land
  8. 15. a shortage of rainfall
Down
  1. 2. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
  2. 4. vibration from underground movement along a fault plane
  3. 6. an outbreak of a pandemic disease.
  4. 7. an atmospheric system in which air circulates rapidly
  5. 8. a situation in which there is not enough food for a great number of people
  6. 9. resulting from a destructive sea wave
  7. 11. a fissure in the earth's crust through which gases erupt