Natural disasters and calamities
Across
- 1. Turbulent water bursts its banks and covers fields and houses.
- 3. This is when a lot of rain falls suddenly.
- 6. When crops fail people don’t have enough food and they starve.
- 8. This happens when it doesn’t rain for some time and the ground is parched dry. There is a shortage of water.
- 10. The ground shakes and everything starts to fall down. Buildings collapse and people get trapped under debris.
- 13. Hot lava moves forward rapidly. Ash and pumice engulf everything on their way.
- 15. This is a disease that spreads rapidly and kills or affects a lot of people.
- 16. This is a lightning and loud noise that is connected with it.
Down
- 2. Land or rocks fall down cliffs or a side of a mountain and cover roads and houses lying lower.
- 4. It’s boiling hot and people find it difficult to breathe and function normally.
- 5. People are trapped under a wall of snow that slides rapidly from a mountain.
- 7. When there is crops’ ... people are deprived of staple food and income connected with it.
- 9. This is a very strong wind.
- 11. This is an extremely violent wind or storm mainly in the western Pacific.
- 12. Wherever you look trees are burning Needless to say a lot of animals lose their habitat.
- 14. A huge wave from the ocean engulfs everything on its way. It usually claims many lives.