Natural Hazards Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering
  2. 5. A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface
  3. 7. a situation involving exposure to danger
  4. 8. An overflowing of water in a normally dry area
  5. 10. Hazard environmental phenomena that have the potential to impact the human environment
  6. 14. A number that describes how likely it is that a particular event will occur
  7. 15. predict or estimate (a future event or trend)
  8. 16. A tropical storm that has winds of about 119 kilometers per hour or higher
  9. 17. A number that characterizes the relative size of an earthquake
Down
  1. 1. A long period of low precipitation
  2. 2. hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fault
  3. 4. a storm with large amounts of snow or blowing snow, winds greater than 35 mph
  4. 6. A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down to touch Earth’s surface
  5. 9. Any object that orbits around another object in space
  6. 11. A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor
  7. 12. The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix.
  8. 13. The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth’s surface