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A mass of rising warm air that usually brings wet, stormy weather

• High pressure

• Low pressure

• Cold front
• Tornado

A scientist that studies weather patterns and predicts weather based on clouds, the wind, and weather fronts.

• botanist
• meteorologist
• astrologer
• geologist

Measures the amount of rain that has fallen over a specific time period.

• Temperature
• Snowfall
• Sunshine
• Rain gauge

A pair of air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other, that stays in one place.

• dynamic front
• moving front
• stationary front
• active front

look like flat blankets and are usually the lowest clouds in the sky

• Nimbostratus clouds
• Cirrus clouds
• Stratus clouds
• Cumulus clouds

The measure of how hot or cold something is.

• Temperature
• Length
• Volume
• Weight