Across
- 2. Front a surface where a cool air mass meets a warmer mass.
- 4. this occurs in an electrical storm.
- 5. the sliding down of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff.
- 8. shacking of the ground that is generated by disturbances in the earth’s crust.
- 10. a prolonged period of very hot weather.
- 13. an intense fire that may generate strong convection currents and violent winds causing long-range spotting and flam spirals.
- 14. a prolonged period of below average precipitation.
- 15. large frozen rain droplets.
Down
- 1. cyclone a severe weather event that occurs where warm, moist, rising air begins to spiral upwards.
- 3. a storm associated with lightning and thunder.
- 6. a harmful event caused by the earth.
- 7. front the edge of a fire that spreads fastest.
- 9. a fire burning out of control in the open.
- 11. hazard an extreme event that is the result of natural processes and has the potential to cause serious material damage or loss of life.
- 12. plain part of a river valley covered by water during floods.