Environment Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. The covering or submerging of normally dry land with a large amount of water.
  2. 7. An unusual, often destructive rise in sea level above normal high-tide level in a coastal area, often during a storm.
  3. 9. A mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
Down
  1. 1. A system of winds rotating with an anticlockwise or clockwise circulation
  2. 2. When the forest catches fire.
  3. 4. A prolonged period of abnormally hot weather.
  4. 5. Fog or haze intensified by smoke or other atmospheric pollutants.
  5. 6. A severe snowstorm with high winds.
  6. 8. A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water