Savage earth vocab

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Across
  1. 2. The action of lessening in severity or intensity.
  2. 3. The use of resources at a rate where no more is being used up than is being replaced. Conserving resources for future use.
  3. 5. When continents move.
  4. 8. Involves any alteration to the natural or cultural environment. Can be predictable, recurrent or cyclic, or unpredictable and erratic.
  5. 9. Secondary tremors that may follow the largest shock of an earthquake sequence.
  6. 10. The point on earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
  7. 12. Organisation that looks to protect against damage caused by natural disasters.
  8. 16. One plate being forced beneath another.
  9. 17. A series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks.
  10. 18. The outcome of something which could be positive or negative.
  11. 19. Conversion if soil into a fluid like mass during an earthquake or other seismic event.
Down
  1. 1. Assigns a magnitude number to quantify the size of an earthquake.
  2. 4. The basic systems and services that are needed to support an economy like transport, communication systems and electricity and water supplies.
  3. 6. Huge wave caused by earthquake or volcanic eruption.
  4. 7. A sequence of actions, natural and/or cultural, that shape and change environments, places and societies.
  5. 11. An exposed crack or opening in the land caused by an earthquake.
  6. 13. To come from different directions to reach the same point.
  7. 14. The portion of the earth between the crust and the core.
  8. 15. Set of rules that specify the minimum acceptable level of safety for constructed objects.
  9. 18. The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.