Natural Hazards

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Across
  1. 4. A mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
  2. 6. Natural events such as a flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life.
  3. 7. An overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land.
  4. 8. A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting from this.
  5. 9. A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.
Down
  1. 1. The sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material.
  2. 2. A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.
  3. 3. 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.
  4. 5. A mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside