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    Natural Disasters

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    1. The document contains words related to natural disasters and extreme weather events like hurricane, tsunami, flood, drought, earthquake, tornado, volcano, lava, evacuate, and disaster. 2. It presents a crossword puzzle with these terms that can be used to complete sentences describing various emergencies around the world such as an erupting volcano in Maui, the effects of Hurricane Sandy, a drought in Europe, an earthquake triggering a tsunami in Indonesia, and tornadoes hitting Europe. 3. The crossword clues are then used to fill in gaps in sentences about recent natural disasters around the world and the impacts they have had.

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    Natural Disasters

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    1. The document contains words related to natural disasters and extreme weather events like hurricane, tsunami, flood, drought, earthquake, tornado, volcano, lava, evacuate, and disaster. 2. It presents a crossword puzzle with these terms that can be used to complete sentences describing various emergencies around the world such as an erupting volcano in Maui, the effects of Hurricane Sandy, a drought in Europe, an earthquake triggering a tsunami in Indonesia, and tornadoes hitting Europe. 3. The crossword clues are then used to fill in gaps in sentences about recent natural disasters around the world and the impacts they have had.

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    1. The document contains words related to natural disasters and extreme weather events like hurricane, tsunami, flood, drought, earthquake, tornado, volcano, lava, evacuate, and disaster. 2. It presents a crossword puzzle with these terms that can be used to complete sentences describing various emergencies around the world such as an erupting volcano in Maui, the effects of Hurricane Sandy, a drought in Europe, an earthquake triggering a tsunami in Indonesia, and tornadoes hitting Europe. 3. The crossword clues are then used to fill in gaps in sentences about recent natural disasters around the world and the impacts they have had.

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    Natural Disasters

    Uploaded by

    Eka Yuliani
    1. The document contains words related to natural disasters and extreme weather events like hurricane, tsunami, flood, drought, earthquake, tornado, volcano, lava, evacuate, and disaster. 2. It presents a crossword puzzle with these terms that can be used to complete sentences describing various emergencies around the world such as an erupting volcano in Maui, the effects of Hurricane Sandy, a drought in Europe, an earthquake triggering a tsunami in Indonesia, and tornadoes hitting Europe. 3. The crossword clues are then used to fill in gaps in sentences about recent natural disasters around the world and the impacts they have had.

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    of 2

    Across

    1. a very strong 1 2

    wind in west Down


    Atlantic
    3
    3. tidal wave
    2. a sudden
    4. a large amount
    violent movement
    of water spread 4 5
    of the ground
    from a river, sea
    3. a strong wind
    etc. that covers an
    that blows in a
    area that is
    circle
    normally dry 6 7
    5. hot liquid rock
    6. a very bad
    7. (of a volcano)
    event, causing harm
    8 to explode and
    or death
    throw out fire, lava,
    8. move
    smoke etc.
    somebody from a 9

    dangerous place
    EclipseCrossword.com
    9. a long period
    without rain

    Use the words from the crossword to complete the sentences

    1. Last night volcano Maui ___________ and the hot ___________ poured downhill. Since
    there are two villages located at the foot of the volcano, the local population was
    ___________.
    2. The devastation caused by superstorm Sandy, particularly in New York and New Jersey, is
    tragic, but the ___________ has at least put climate change back on the map.
    3. After the harshest winter in decades, the Balkans region in the southeast of Europe is now
    facing its hottest summer and the worst _________ across the area in nearly 40 years.
    4. A powerful ____________ off the coast of Indonesia sparked a three-metre-high
    ______________that killed at least 113 people.
    5. A landslide caused by rains in southern China left 21 people missing today, adding to a
    growing death toll from China's worst _________ season in a decade.
    6. This summer a dozen ____________, which are more common in the US, have hit Europe.
    The twister which swept through Poland yesterday flattened more than 400 hectares of
    woodland in the area.
    7. The US navy has been deployed to help avert a looming environmental __________ in the
    Gulf of Mexico.
    The answer key:

    a) the crossword puzzle

    1 2
    H U R R I C A N E
    A
    3
    T S U N A M I R
    O T
    4 5
    R F L O O D H
    N A Q
    A V U
    6 7
    D I S A S T E R A
    O R K
    8
    E V A C U A T E
    P
    9
    D R O U G H T
    EclipseCrossword.com

    b) gap-fill

    1. erupted; lava; evacuated


    2. hurricane
    3. drought
    4. earthquake; tsunami
    5. flood
    6. tornadoes
    7. disaster

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