Natural and Man-made disasters
Across
- 8. a large amount of snow that quickly moves down a slope.
- 9. The contamination of the environment with radioactive materials, where these materials are not present.
- 11. a rise of water with no place to go.
- 13. no rain for a long period of time.
- 14. harmful or poisonous things that people put into the environment.
- 15. a hole that forms in the ground when the dirt and rocks wash away and there is nothing underneath the ground anymore to support it.
Down
- 1. a sudden violent shaking of the ground, typically causing great destruction.
- 2. the clearing, or cutting down, of forests.
- 3. giant waves caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions under the sea.
- 4. a large rotating storm with high speed winds that forms over warm waters in tropical areas.
- 5. when lava and gas are released from a volcano—sometimes explosively.
- 6. when waste, chemicals, or other particles cause a body of water to became harmful to the fish and animals that need the water to survive.
- 7. is a type of storm in which powerful rotating winds form a column, which reaches from a cloud down toward the ground.
- 10. large uncontrolled fires that take place in the forest.
- 12. a collapse of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff.