Disasters and Calamities Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• famine: a wide-spread scarcity or dearth of food that causes people to suffer from extreme hunger.
• deluge: an unusually great flood accompanied by heavy rainfall that causes inundation such as that which affected noah and his ark.
• drought: a long continuous spell of dry weather with marked lack of rain that stems the growth of plants.
• destitution: a long continuous spell of dry weather with marked lack of rain that stems the growth of plants.
• subsidence: the sinking of the earth to a lower level because of underground movements and workings.
• gale: a strong and violent wind but of less force than that of a storm or tempest.
• holocaust: a very large scale destruction and loss of life that may result from use of strategic weapons, as in a nuclear war.
• landslide: the slipping of a mass of land from a higher to a lower level.
• plague: an extremely contagious pestilence or epidemic disease, also known as the black death, that decimated europe's population in the middle ages.
• depression: a decline in business marked by an extreme slump in production and purchase of foods such as the great crash on wall street in 1929, which ruined international trade.
• contamination: a condition or state where the environment (water, air, soil) is made impure because of harmful chemicals and poisonous matter.
• avalanche: the fall of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain slope.
• conflagration: a great or disastrous fire, especially one breaking out in a forest.
• earthquake: a vibration of the earth's crust caused by disturbances of the inner layers of the earth.
• insanity: any mental disorder characierized by irrational or violent deviation from normal thinking.