Hazards

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Moving air (4)
  2. 3. Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence (5)
  3. 4. A cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption (7)
  4. 5. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the ___ resulting from underground movement along a fault (10)
  5. 8. Substance used in or made by chemistry (8)
  6. 9. A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff (9)
  7. 11. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (5)
  8. 13. Mountain that erupts with lava (7)
  9. 14. Hot flames that burn (4)

Down

  1. 2. An illness that harms the body (7)
  2. 3. A severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (9)
  3. 4. Pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust (8)
  4. 6. A slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain (9)
  5. 7. A storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds (8)
  6. 10. Deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy (7)
  7. 12. A shortage of rainfall (7)