Tornadoes

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no (11)
  2. 4. A member of the Siouan people of the ___ river valley in ___ (plural) (6)
  3. 5. Characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity (4)
  4. 8. A state in south central United States (8)
  5. 9. The process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state (12)
  6. 12. Absence of light or illumination (4)
  7. 13. The atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth (3)
  8. 14. A sea nymph supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived (plural) (6)
  9. 15. Water falling from clouds (4)

Down

  1. 1. A state in north central United States (11)
  2. 3. A deep prolonged loud noise (7)
  3. 5. Abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission (9)
  4. 6. Moving air (4)
  5. 7. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents (4)
  6. 10. A midwestern state on the Great Plains (8)
  7. 11. The second largest state (5)