Study Guide Natural Disasters
Across
- 3. Scale that measures the wind speed of hurricanes in categories
- 5. Bedrock beneath Florida's surface
- 9. Landscapes made of limestone
- 11. Violent cyclonic storm that develops over ocean water
- 12. Areas in the United States where tornadoes most occur
Down
- 1. Land surrounded on three sides by water
- 2. scale that measures the wind speed of tornadoes
- 4. Sudden rush of water onshore caused by a hurricane making landfall
- 6. Depressions in the ground caused by eroding limestone
- 7. Scale that measures the magnitude of an earthquake is called the ____________ scale
- 8. Sudden violent shaking of the Earth's surface
- 10. Violently rotating column of air extending downward from a thunderstorm