Natural disaster - Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. A storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold.
  2. 4. Significant changes in global temperature, precipitation, wind patterns and other measures of climate that occur over several decades or longer.
  3. 5. A violently destructive windstorm occurring over local areas of land, having a long, funnel-shaped cloud that extends to the ground.
  4. 6. A large mass of snow, ice, etc., that comes loose from a mountain slope and slides or falls suddenly downward.
  5. 7. An air mass of high temperature covering an extended area and moving relatively slowly.
  6. 8. A large area of land covered with trees which burns.
  7. 9. A long period of dry weather.
  8. 12. Extended masses of ice formed from snow falling which become liquid by heat.
  9. 13. A windstorm in a desert that blows along great clouds of sand.
Down
  1. 1. Ejection of a mountain or hill, usually having a cuplike crater at the top, that was formed around such a vent from the ash and lava that were given off from it.
  2. 3. Vibrations in the earth's crust causing the ground to shake.
  3. 10. A great flowing or overflowing of water over land not usually submerged.
  4. 11. An unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or volcanic eruption under water.