Final cut pro...audio waves in timeline.

Ok so I'm new to the Mac world..used premiere for years, now I'm trying to learn FCP.
Here's the first of I'm sure will be many ??'s
In the audio timeline I can't see the audio wave ( meter lines ) not sure what there called. I can hear the audio.
I assume it must be a setting but I can't find it.
  Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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