NATURAL HAZARDS
Across
- 2. A prolonged period of little or no rainfall
- 4. A violent storm with winds whirling around, usually characterized by a dark funnel-shaped cloud causing damage along its path
- 5. A severe, often destructive tropical storm
- 8. A fall of large masses of snow and ice down a mountain
- 10. A large, often destructive, sea wave produced by a submarine earthquake, subsidence, or volcanic eruption
Down
- 1. An opening in the earth's crust from which molten lava, rock fragments, ashes, dust, and gases are ejected from below the earth's surface
- 3. A raging and uncontrollable fire
- 6. A sudden release of energy in the earth's crust or upper mantle, usually caused by movement along a fault plane
- 7. The sliding of a large mass of rock material, soil, etc, down the side of a mountain or cliff
- 9. A large rock flying through space