Across
- 1. droughts affect more _______ than any other disaster
- 5. a crack through layers of rock
- 10. floods that happen very fast are called
- 13. started by lightning or an earthquake
- 15. concrete and stone to protect the coast from the sea
- 16. used to describe a volcano that hasn't erupted for several hundred years
- 18. a pattern of dry weather
- 19. hot molten rock
Down
- 2. a electric spark from the clouds
- 3. they can race across the _______ at 800 to 960 km/h
- 4. bush fires are a constant threat in countries like this
- 6. ______ are the most common disaster
- 7. a Tornado over a lake or ocean is called a
- 8. a storm of violent whirling winds
- 9. it is a japanese word for long low sea wave
- 11. a rotating storm that starts over the Atlantic ocean
- 12. the thin hard layer of the earth
- 14. a time when crops do not grow
- 17. rock from inside the earth