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3. 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.

altimeter inversion layer set

boil isothermal layer setting

determine lapse rate

a. Do you have the correct time? I want to _________ my watch.

b. If you are at sea level, you can expect water to ___________ at 100°
c. An altimeter uses a unit like an aneroid barometer to _________ height.

d. If you know that the standard __________ ___________ is 2°c per thousand feet,
you know why temperatures are cooler in the mountains.

e. If the temperature begins to increase as you go higher, you are probably in an

___________ ___________.

f. Pilots use an __________ to find out how high they are flying.

g. Since pressure changes from day to day, and from place to place, the altimeter

___________ ____________ has to be changed to show local pressure at each

airfield.

h. I wish you would change the ____________on that alarm clock; it wakes us up 10
minutes too early.

i. The temperature is staying the same, but the altimeter shows we have gone up
2,000 feet; that is a sure characteristic of an __________ ___________

j. Isothermal layers and inversion layers are easy to identify because they don't
follow the standard ___________ ____________; one reverses it, the other just

doesn't change.

k. One reason a pilot is told the local pressure is so he can __________ his altimeter.

l. When water __________ at 100°c, it is changing from a liquid to a gas.

m. There is no easy way to __________ atmospheric pressure without a barometer.

n. If there is hot air above cool air, it will be called an ___________ __________.