natural disasters
Across
- 4. a period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity
- 5. a severe snowstorm with high winds
- 7. people starving
- 9. a smaller earthquake
- 10. a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall
- 13. a mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside
- 14. an overflow of a large amount of water
Down
- 1. a geological disaster in which a large amount of mud gathers and moves rapidly down a hill or slope
- 2. a giant wave caused by earthquakes
- 3. a storm with a violent wind
- 6. a storm of heavy hail
- 8. a sudden violent shaking of the ground,
- 11. a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds
- 12. an opening in the earth's crust