Natural Disasters

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (plural) (6)
  2. 6. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the ___ resulting from underground movement along a fault (plural) (11)
  3. 7. A shortage of rainfall (plural) (8)
  4. 9. A sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight (5)

Down

  1. 1. A violent rotating windstorm (plural) (8)
  2. 2. A severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (plural) (10)
  3. 3. A storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds (plural) (10)
  4. 4. Mountain that erupts with lava (plural) (9)
  5. 8. A cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption (7)