Across
- 6. global atmospheric system that determines our weather
- 9. earthquakes, storms, volcano eruptions, floods, landslides are ... (2 words)
- 11. the number of disaster has been ... in recent decades
- 12. a natural hazard caused by wind
- 15. help to protect communities from tsunamis
- 16. preparing for disasters can be
- 17. when a hazard impacts human beings - their life, health or possessions
- 18. burning fossil fuels leads to this (2 words)
- 19. helps humans to understand natural hazards better
Down
- 1. period in which six of the ten hottest years happened
- 2. bouncing back well from a disaster
- 3. sum of factors that makes a human, a community or an asset endangered by a hazard (2 words)
- 4. what we should be (2 words)
- 5. a natural or man-made event that threatens humans
- 7. main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming (2 words)
- 8. helps to minimize the impact of disasters
- 10. the chance that a certain event happens at a certain time
- 13. the probability that a hazard will turn into a disaster, based on vulnerability and adaptive capacity (2 words)
- 14. many people argue that there are no such disasters at all, as each disaster has a certain human component