Disasters
Across
- 2. too much water. the opposite of a drought.
- 4. several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows, and debris flows.
- 6. an earthquake underwater
- 8. a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and/or squalls.
Down
- 1. a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
- 3. when lava and gas are discharged from a volcanic vent.
- 5. The shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
- 7. an event of prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or ground water. A drought can last for months or years or may be declared after as few as 15 days.