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Language Exercises
I. NEW TERMINOLOGY: Oral Exercises

1. Select words from the list below to complete the following sentences. Some of
the words may be used more than once, and you may have to make the word
plural or change the tense. Do not try to write the words in the spaces.

meteorology process average
property t roposphere tropopause

tructure stratosphere
a. Do you know much about the ____________ of clouds being formed from
evaporated water in the air?
b. In some desert areas the ____________ rainfall is less than five inches per year
c. Most people spend their lives in the troposphere. You would normally only enter
the __________ if you were in a high-flying airplane.
d. I saw a picture showing the ____________ of the atmosphere; it showed five
different layers of air, one above the other.
e. Almost everyone knows some of the __________ of water; it freezes at 0°C and
boils at 100°c.
f. The layer of air closest to the ground is the __________
g. I wanted to know more about weather so I bought a book on ___________ .
h. When you go from the troposphere to the stratosphere, you cross the
__________ .
i. It is easy to understand the ___________ of the atmosphere if you just think of a
series of transparent balls; a large one, then a smaller one inside it, then an even
smaller one inside that one, and so on.
j. The layer above the tropopause is called the _____________ .
k. The __________height of the troposphere is 7 miles; actually it is higher at the
equator than at the poles.
l. Most of what we call weather occurs in the troposphere; occasionally a storm will
enter the
m. The ___________ of ice changing to water is called "melting."
n. The atmosphere has several ____________ that are related to altitude; both
temperature and pressure change with height.