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What is the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid?
Convection
What is the movement of the fluid called?
Convection is heat transfer by the movement of heated fluids. Heat transfer is the movement of energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.
What are convection currents responsible for?
Convection currents are responsible for the movement of heat (and mass) within a fluid system. Heat wants to go from where it is to where it isn't. When atoms and or molecules of a fluid (a gas or liquid, for example) are hotter then their companion particles, they are less dense and rise in the fluid. Cooler, more dense groups of atoms or molecules take their place. Convection currents are thus set up, and heat travels "around" the system via those currents. A link to the Wikipedia article on convection is provided.
How do particles behave when boiling?
There is a scientific explanation to why convection, and convection currents occur. Firstly, when the fluid is heated, the particles vibrate more and move further away from each other, decreasing the density of the fluid. This lighter fluid then rises above the denser fluid. While it is rising, the newly heated fluid cools, and this makes the particles oscillate less, making them closer together, and increasing the density of that part of the fluid, making it sink. This cycle is repeated to create a convection current
What are convection currents and where are they found?
Convection currents in the mantle are streams of fluid produced by the process of heat transfer from one place to another. The earth gets very hot as you go nearer to the core. The mantle is thus heated up as it is right next to the core. As a result, convection currents are formed.*Core: It is a spherical zone that lies at the center of the earth.*Mantle: It is the layer surrounding the outer core of the earth.
Movement of a fluid when part of it is heated is?
convection
Heat transferred by warm currents within a fluid is called what?
Convection is the movement caused within a fluid by "warm currents". The hotter fluid will rise, pushing the cooler fluid down, which then in turn gets heated, creating a continuous cycle.
Heat is transferred by the movement of currents within a fluid by a process called what?
convection
Heat transfer by the movement of a heated fluid is called?
It is called Convection.
What is the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid?
Convection
What currents are they when are transferred within the mantle and fluid?
Convection currents.
Describe the convection currents that occur inside Earth?
Convection currents are the movement of fluid as a result of differential heating or convection. In the case of the Earth, convection currents refer to the motion of molten rock in the mantle as radioactive decay heats up magma, causing it to rise and driving the global scale flow of magma.
What is the movement of the fluid called?
Convection is heat transfer by the movement of heated fluids. Heat transfer is the movement of energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.
How is heat transferred into a fluid?
When a fluid (liquid or gas) is heated, it expands. The heated fluid is therefore less dense than the fluid around it, so it rises.Colder fluid then sinks down to replace it and this sets up a movement of fluid called a CONVECTION CURRENT.
How is convection transferred?
Convection is transferred by the larger-scale motion of currents in the fluid.
The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid?
convection
What are convection currents created by?
Convection currents are the flow of fluid (liquid or gas) caused by the molecular motion resulting from the transfer of heat through the fluid. In meteorology it is the vertical movement of atmospheric gases caused by heat, atmospheric pressure, condensation of water vapor, and other factors.
