Across
- 9. Involves any alteration to the natural or cultural environment. Can be predictable, recurrent or cyclic, or unpredictable and erratic.
- 10. A series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks.
- 12. The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.
- 14. An exposed crack or opening in the land caused by an earthquake
- 15. When continents move
- 17. Organisation that looks to protect against damage caused by natural disasters
- 18. A sequence of actions, natural and/or cultural, that shape and change environments, places and societies.
Down
- 1. One plate being forced beneath another
- 2. The use of resources at a rate where no more is used up than is being replaced. Conserving resources for future use.
- 3. Assigns a magnitude number to quantify the size of an earthquake.
- 4. The action of lessening in severity or intensity
- 5. Conversion of soil into a fluid like mass during an earthquake or other seismic event
- 6. The point on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
- 7. Huge wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption
- 8. Secondary tremors that may follow the largest shock of an earthquake sequence.
- 9. To come from different directions to reach the same point
- 11. Set of rules that specify the minimum acceptable level of safety for constructed objects
- 13. The portion of the earth between the crust and the core.
- 16. The outcome of something which could be positive or negative