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Q: What does air do when it is heated in convection?
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Why a spoon is getting heated over a fire?

A spoon over a fire would would be heated from convection, because convection is when hot air rises and cold air falls which is known as a convection current.


Find the mean for convection?

movement of air (HEATED)


How is air heated near the earths surfaces?

It's heated through the convection currents.


When Heated air molecules in a hot air balloon soon carry thermal energy to the top of the balloon?

convection


How does convection cause sea breezes at the sea side?

During the day, the land by the sea is heated by the sun. Through convection, this heated air rises upward and then in order to replace this heated air, cooler air is drawn from the surface of the sea, creating a sea breeze.


Why is hot sand heats the air convection?

I think you mean why does hot sand heat the air by convection... The sand is heated by the sun, and the air is touching the sand, which is hot, so by convection, the sand is heating the air.


Why cant convection currents form if they are heated from the top?

The convection current can't form if heated at the top because then, the hot air would just keep getting hotter; no air moves around.


What forms when heated air expands and cooler air sinks below the warmer air?

Convection currents


Current consists of air or a liquid moving in a circular path as it is heated and cooled?

Convection current Convection current


When heat energy travels by convection energy is transferred by the circulation of heated material?

Yes, when heat travels by convection the energy is transferred by the circulation of a heated fluid, such as air or water.


Which diagram correctly indicates why convection currents form in water why water is heated?

which diagram correctly indicates why convection currents form in water when water is heated


How are currents that form in heated air similar to currents that form in heated water?

Currents that form in heated air are similar to currents that form in warm water because heated air goes up and cold air goes down creating convection currents.