Natural Disasters: Vocabulary
Across
- 2. is a tropical storm with winds that can blow from 74 to 157 miles per hour
- 5. is the resistance of motion when one object rubs against another
- 6. is a release of tension between tectonic plates that creates seismic waves
- 8. occurs when a large amount of water flows over its usual boundaries
- 10. is anything that naturally changes the way that the Earth looks
Down
- 1. is an Earth process that is caused by an earthquake
- 3. is the overall size of the earthquake
- 4. occurs when a large amount of snow or ice falls
- 7. is a fluid's resistance to flow
- 9. occurs when a mass of earth or rock falls