Across
- 2. A storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold.
- 4. Significant changes in global temperature, precipitation, wind patterns and other measures of climate that occur over several decades or longer.
- 5. A violently destructive windstorm occurring over local areas of land, having a long, funnel-shaped cloud that extends to the ground.
- 6. A large mass of snow, ice, etc., that comes loose from a mountain slope and slides or falls suddenly downward.
- 7. An air mass of high temperature covering an extended area and moving relatively slowly.
- 8. A large area of land covered with trees which burns.
- 9. A long period of dry weather.
- 12. Extended masses of ice formed from snow falling which become liquid by heat.
- 13. A windstorm in a desert that blows along great clouds of sand.
Down
- 1. Ejection of a mountain or hill, usually having a cuplike crater at the top, that was formed around such a vent from the ash and lava that were given off from it.
- 3. Vibrations in the earth's crust causing the ground to shake.
- 10. A great flowing or overflowing of water over land not usually submerged.
- 11. An unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or volcanic eruption under water.