Natural Disasters Teach Ten

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Across
  1. 3. a large, destructive fire that spreads quickly over woodland or brush.
  2. 7. when gas and/or lava are released from a volcano
  3. 9. a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.
  4. 10. a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
Down
  1. 1. a system of winds rotating inward to an area of low atmospheric pressure, with a counterclockwise (northern hemisphere) or clockwise (southern hemisphere) circulation; a depression.
  2. 2. a long, narrow, ditch
  3. 4. an overflowing of a large amount of water
  4. 5. the sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff.
  5. 6. a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.
  6. 8. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground