Natural Disasters

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Hot flames that burn (plural) (5)
  2. 5. Mountain that erupts with lava (7)
  3. 6. The condition of being susceptible to harm or injury (6)
  4. 9. The planet we live on (5)
  5. 11. Water soaked soil (3)
  6. 13. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune (plural) (9)
  7. 14. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the ___ resulting from underground movement along a fault (plural) (11)
  8. 15. Hard piece of stone (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (plural) (6)
  2. 2. Rock that in its molten form issues from volcanos (4)
  3. 3. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)
  4. 4. A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff (plural) (10)
  5. 7. Someone regarded as certain to succeed (7)
  6. 8. United States baseball player (6)
  7. 10. Spinning funnel of wind that touches the ground (7)
  8. 12. Hard outer layer of the Earth or of bread (5)