Across
- 2. a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
- 7. a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors.
- 8. is a large scale air mass that rotates around a strong center of low pressure
- 10. a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with surface of earth and a cumulonimbus cloud
- 11. is the perceptible shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
Down
- 1. a form of mass wasting involving "extremely rapid surging flow" of debris
- 3. severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds
- 4. a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain.
- 5. overflow of water that submerges land
- 6. a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake
- 9. is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.