Natural Disasters & Weather

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Across
  1. 2. malicious burning to destroy property
  2. 3. bringing death
  3. 7. vibration from underground movement along a fault plane
  4. 9. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto land
  5. 11. the process of combustion of inflammable materials
  6. 12. a shortage of rainfall
  7. 13. a hard outer layer that covers something
  8. 14. a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water
  9. 15. a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds
  10. 16. darkness resulting from the extinction of lights
  11. 17. a criminal who illegally sets fire to property
Down
  1. 1. droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
  2. 2. a slide of large masses of snow, ice and mud down a mountain
  3. 4. a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms
  4. 5. an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure
  5. 6. a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
  6. 8. the process of wearing or grinding something down
  7. 10. a violent storm in which air moves in a circular direction
  8. 11. an imperfection in an object or machine
  9. 15. be in motion due to some air or water current