Natural disasters
Across
- 6. Powerful rotating column of air with a funnel-shaped cloud (tornado)
- 9. Shaking of the earth caused by movement along faults
- 10. rapidly moving river of ice (glacier)
- 11. destructive fire thatspreads rapidly (wildfire)
- 12. fast-movingflow of mud, rocks, and debri down a hillside (mudslide)
Down
- 1. A sudden burst of gas and ash from a volcano (volcanic eruption)
- 2. Catastrophic event caused by a massaive release of energy from the sun (solar flare)
- 3. large crack in the earth's surface caused by the shifting of tectonic plates(fissure)
- 4. sudden collapse in the ground caused by the dissolving of underground minerals (sinkhole)
- 5. Large ocean wave caused by underwater earthquakes or volcanic eruptions (tsunami(
- 7. A long period of litte or no rainfall (drought)
- 8. flow of molten rock, ash,and gases from a volcanic eruption (lava)