Natural Disasters

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Across
  1. 5. Is a period of drier-than-normal conditions.
  2. 6. Is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or mountain.
  3. 7. Appears as the second most detrimental type of disaster when measured in economic damage.
  4. 9. Is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
Down
  1. 1. Is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.
  2. 2. An overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry.
  3. 3. Are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.
  4. 4. Are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater.
  5. 8. Is the shaking of the surface of the earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
  6. 9. A series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.