Natural Disasters

3. Very big fire that spreads quickly and burns natural areas like woods, forests and grassland;
4. Violent tropical storm in which strong winds move in a circle;
6. Large amount of mud sliding down a mountain;
9. Violent storm with very strong winds that move in a circle. There is often also a long cloud that is narrower at the bottom than the top;
10. Very bad weather with strong winds and rain, and often thunder and lightning;
13. Event in which wind coincides with varieties of precipitation that only occur at freezing temperatures;
14. Lack of food during a long period of time in a region;
15. Period of unusually hot weather;
16. Snowstorm with very strong winds;
18. Very rare type of natural disaster in which dissolved CO2 suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming a gas cloud;
19. Incident in which lightning hits somebody/something;
20. Violent tropical storm with very strong winds;

1. Violent storm with very strong winds, especially in the western Atlantic Ocean;
2. A volcano spewing red hot lava;
5. Large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry;
7. Mass of earth, rock, etc. that falls down the slope of a mountain or a cliff;
8. Mass of snow, ice and rock that falls down the side of a mountain;
11. Sudden, violent shaking of the earth’s surface;
12. Extremely large wave in the sea caused, for example, by an earthquake;
17. Long period of time when there is little or no rain;