Across
- 5. the act of stopping something bad from happening
- 7. a death that is caused in an accident or a war, or by violence or disease
- 8. to continue to live or exist despite a dangerous event or time
- 9. clean and free of bacteria and therefore unlikely to spread disease
- 10. something that helps to cause something
- 12. a result of something that has happened, especially an unpleasant result
- 13. negative and unpleasant; not likely to produce a good result
Down
- 1. the movement of people to a new country or area in order to find work or better living conditions
- 2. the act of destroying something; the process of being destroyed
- 3. the quality in land or soil of making plants grow well
- 4. the number of deaths in a particular situation or period of time
- 6. one of the very large pieces of rock that form the earth’s surface and move slowly
- 8. if there is a ______ of something, there is not enough of it and it is difficult to obtain it
- 11. connected with or caused by earthquakes