Natural disasters

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Across
  1. 2. Rivers overflow the banks and flood the area that is usually dry.
  2. 3. High waves that hit the coast, destroy houses, kill people…
  3. 5. A mass of snow, ice, rocks.. slide down the mountain and buries everything underneath.
  4. 6. Is a long period of months or years when a region doesn’t have any rain.
  5. 8. Strong winds with a lot of snow.
  6. 9. Uncontrolled fire that happens in a wilderness (forest, bush).
Down
  1. 1. When it erupts (explodes, goes off), lava and hot rocks pour down the mountain, ash rises in the air.
  2. 3. Violent wind with a lot of rain which moves quickly in a circle – circular wind.
  3. 4. A huge amount/quantity of stones, mud, soil slide down and destroys everything underneath.
  4. 7. Diseases affecting a lot of people (aviary flu, Plague, yellow fever, AIDS, cholera, malaria).