Disaster Preparedness Academic Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. A condition or practice of keeping yourself and your surroundings clean, especially in order to prevent illness/disease
  2. 6. To remove (persons or things) from a place, as a dangerous place or disaster area, for reasons of safety or protection
  3. 9. The action of making a specific thing smaller or less in amount, degree, or size
  4. 11. The process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities
  5. 12. An event, especially one occurring suddenly, causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship (ex: flood, airplane crash)
Down
  1. 1. One who is injured or killed in an accident or conflict
  2. 2. To lessen in force or intensity; to make les severe
  3. 3. To hinder or stop something from occurring; to avert
  4. 5. Something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty
  5. 7. Capable of or susceptible to being attacked, damaged, or hurt
  6. 8. In a way that is out of proper relation with something else in size, number, importance, etc
  7. 10. A thing that is regarded as more important than another