Across
- 5. eruptions: explosion of things such as lava from a type of mountain.
- 8. storm: occurs in winter with lots of rain, snow and sleet.
- 10. strikes: natural discharge from a cloud with high voltage amounts often hitting the earth and damaging with things like fire.
- 12. large mass of ice detached from a glacier and has been carried out to sea.
- 13. mud and other earthy materials that fall down a hillside or other slopes.
- 14. tornadoes: start as smoke, when intense heat and wind conditions kick in it turns to a flame.
- 15. overflow of water or much more water than normal.
- 16. whirling tornado of air and water, there are 2 types, one that starts on land and moves to water and another that hardly moves.
- 20. hole in the round caused by water erosion.
- 21. process in which fertile land becomes a desert.
- 22. moving, destructive vortex with high twisting wind speeds looking funnel shaped.
- 25. collapse of rock or earth sliding down a cliff or mountain.
- 27. system of winds rotating inward.
- 28. time of severely low rainfall leading to shortage of water.
- 30. shower: once a year many small bodies of space matter enter the earth's atmosphere, they appear as a streaking light.
Down
- 1. tropical storm in Indian or Western Pacific oceans.
- 2. eruption: when a lake releases a large amount of carbon dioxide, it is very rare and suffocates livestock, wildlife and humans.
- 3. storm with violent wind.
- 4. explosion in the air usually results from meteors.
- 6. sudden violent shaking of earth due to underground movement.
- 7. large damaging fire that spreads quickly, especially over bush and woodland.
- 9. wave: very large oceanic wave caused by earthquake.
- 11. permafrost: heat frozen methane builds up so much pressure that it explodes forming craters, found mainly in Siberia.
- 17. strong wind that carries sand clouds along with it.
- 18. storm with heavy frozen water pellets.
- 19. destructive flow of volcanic matter on the slope of a volcano.
- 23. mass of frozen water falling down mountainside.
- 24. severe snowstorm with high wind speeds.
- 26. long, high wave from the sea often caused by an earthquake.
- 29. wave: prolonged time of abnormally hot weather.