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Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff (9)
  2. 7. Rock that in its molten form issues from volcanos (4)
  3. 8. People who are no longer living (4)
  4. 10. Mountain that erupts with lava (7)
  5. 11. A localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by (7)
  6. 13. The 7th ___ before Easter (12)
  7. 15. Poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in (8)
  8. 16. Hot flames that burn (4)

Down

  1. 1. A violent rotating windstorm (7)
  2. 2. Moving air (4)
  3. 3. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents (4)
  4. 4. A port city in northeastern England on the River Tyne (9)
  5. 6. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (5)
  6. 9. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune (plural) (9)
  7. 12. Water falling from clouds (4)
  8. 14. To do away with, cause the ___ or undoing of (7)