Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Researchers stationed at different areas on a mountain and in a tunnel midway through the mountain boiled water at the same time. Even though the water at every station was at the same temperature, the pot at the top of the mountain started boiling before the others. Why? Water boils when the vapor pressure is the atmospheric pressure. The atmospheric pressure at the top of the mountain.

C: plants and animals

The answer is celsius 

You would be correct, boiling water does disinfect contamination.    the property of disinfecting means to kill  germs, bacteria and other pathogens or contamination  that might cause an infection or cause a person to become sickly. a couple methods of disinfecting are using soap, other cleaning supplies or by simply "boiling" the contaminate.  the reason why boiling water disinfects certain attributes is because some cells cannot survive the heat and pressure.