Natural Disasters - Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes
Across
- 5. A volcano that is not presently erupting but that is considered likely to erupt in the future. Is in ‘sleeping’ mode
- 6. An opening at the earth’s surface from which volcanic material where lava, steam, or gas is emitted
- 8. A place where a large number of faults are located
- 10. The point within the earth’s crust where an earthquake begins
- 11. A large ocean wave
- 14. A volcano that has had at least one eruption during the past 10,000 years. An active volcano might be erupting or dormant. It could erupt at any moment.
- 15. Molten material beneath or within the earth's crust
- 17. When the whole world was connected also called Pangaea.
- 20. Detached masses of lava shot out by volcanoes, which, as they fall, assume rounded forms like bombshells.
- 21. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action
- 22. When 2 tectonic plates move away from each other
- 23. When 2 continental plates collide
Down
- 1. When the volcano explodes/erupts
- 2. A superheated avalanche consisting of ash, rock and lava that rushes down the mountain –with devastating effects -
- 3. A scale developed to measure the strength of earthquakes.
- 4. A small earthquake or tremor that follows a major earthquake
- 7. Tsunami is a great sea wave produced by a submarine earthquake, volcanic eruption, or large landslide.
- 9. The molten, fluid rock that issues from a volcano or volcanic vent
- 12. A magma chamber is a large underground pool of molten rock found beneath the surface of the Earth.
- 13. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapour, and gas are or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
- 16. The point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus
- 18. When 2 tectonic plates collide and 1 plate slides beneath the other
- 19. The opening on top of a volcano which lava erupts from