Across
- 1. FLOODS - a sudden local flood, typically due to heavy rain.
- 2. - destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
- 4. - a long, high sea wave caused by an earthquake or other disturbance.
- 7. - a sudden violent shaking of the ground
- 9. - a system of winds rotating inwards to an area of low barometric pressure, with an anticlockwise (northern hemisphere) or clockwise (southern hemisphere) circulation; a depression.
Down
- 1. - an overflow of a large amount of water beyond its normal limits, especially over what is normally dry land.
- 3. - a mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside.
- 5. -a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
- 6. - a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.
- 8. - a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapour, and gas are or have been erupted from the earth's crust.