Natural Disasters
Across
- 3. huge masses of rock move beneath the Earth's surface and cause the ground to shake
- 5. When water overflows onto dry land
- 8. A tornado is a type of storm in which powerful rotating winds form a column, which reaches from a cloud down toward the ground
- 9. Large amounts of sliding rocks, earth, or other materials
- 10. deadly ocean waves
- 11. an uncontrolled fire that burns in a forest, grassland, or other sparsely populated area
Down
- 1. violent events that are outside the control of humans
- 2. a shortage of rain over a long period of time
- 4. a large amount of snow that quickly moves down a slope
- 6. A tropical cyclone is a circular storm that forms over warm oceans
- 7. Eruption hot gasses and melted rock from deep within Earth find their way up to the surface