Environmental Hazards
Across
- 5. A scientist who studies weather
- 9. An area of active volcanoes located around the Pacific Ocean (7,4,2,4)
- 10. The area where crustal plates move side by side
- 13. The point underground directly beneath the epicentre where the crustal rocks snap apart
- 14. A scientist who studies volcanoes
- 16. Where one plate meets another (5,8)
- 18. An instrument used to measure the strength of an earthquake
- 20. The centre of a tropical storm
Down
- 1. An important line of latitude located at 23.5 degrees North of the equator (7,2,6)
- 2. An important line of latitude located at 23.5 degrees South of the equator (7,2,9)
- 3. A fast moving cloud or hot gas and rock (11,4)
- 4. The thin narrow pipe at the side of a volcano formed when the main vent is blocked (4,4)
- 5. The layer of hot, molten rock located beneath the Earth's crust
- 6. The thin narrow pipe in the middle of a volcano (4,4)
- 7. Smaller earth tremors normally experienced after a major earthquake
- 8. A tidal wave caused by an underwater earthquake
- 11. Huge pieces of rock that fit together to form the Earth's crust (8,6)
- 12. A table which details the strength of an earthquake ranging from 1-12 (7,5)
- 15. Liquid rock melted by the Earth's heat
- 17. The hole at the top of a volcano where lava and ash escape
- 19. The name given to a tropical storm in the USA