Across
- 2. intense low pressure areas that form over warm ocean waters in the summer and early fall
- 6. occurs when a layer of snow collapses and slides downhill
- 8. a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds
- 9. a series of enormous waves created by an underwater disturbance usually associated with earthquakes occurring below or near the ocean
- 10. a rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the surface of the Earth.
Down
- 1. a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth
- 3. occurs most commonly from heavy rainfall when natural watercourses do not have the capacity to carry excess water
- 4. an electrical discharge caused by imbalances between storm clouds and the ground, or within the clouds themselves.
- 5. geologic process in which gravity causes rock, soil, artificial fill or a combination of the three to move down a slope
- 7. volcanos ______ when molten rock called magma rises to the surface