The change of air temperature with height is the

A. dry adiabatic rate.

B. environmental lapse rate.

C. wet adiabatic rate.

D. thermal rate.

The correct answer is (b.) environmental lapse rate. The change of air temperature with height is the environmental lapse rate. The environmental lapse rate calculates the rate whenever the atmospheric temperature decreases and the altitude increases and so does the temperature because they are uniformly the same.