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What happens as thermal energy is transferred from the core to the mantle?
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What happen as thermal energy is transferred from the core to the mantle?
CONVECTION CURRENT is the answer.
How his thermal energy transferred from one to another by convection?
Convection currents occur in liquid. Heat excites the matter near the source and causes it to rise, making nearby matter rush in to fill the space. Then that matter is heated, rises, and so on. A good example of this is the Earth's mantle: heat from the core is dispersed by convection currents.
What is a device that can convert thermal energy to Light energy?
Any body that gets hot enough will radiate light. The sun for example behaves like a black body at about 6000 degC, but that is not a sensible or economical process to copy for artificial light, which we can make using electrical energy. The filament in an incandescent light bulb is producing light because it is at a high temperature in a suitable gas, but there it is converting electrical energy not thermal. To convert thermal energy directly to light, you only have to think of a candle, there the hot flame is producing the light. This is refined in the old fashioned oil lamp. I recall these being used in rural areas before electricity was laid on. There is a reservoir for the burning oil, a pure form of kerosene, a wick and a mantle which gets very hot and radiates the light. A modern version used for camping has a small butane container attached to provide the thermal energy input to the flame and mantle.
Where is energy from the sun stored on earth?
Much of the energy is reflected back to space, so it isn't stored at all. Part of the energy is stored short-term or medium-term as heat energy - in whatever gets heated up, directly or indirectly by the sunlight, including the oceans which can store a significant amount of heat. And a relatively small amount is stored by living beings, starting with plants which store it as chemical energy.
How is conduction convection and radiation alike?
Conduction, Convection, and radiation are all ways that heat can be transferred between 2 objects. Conduction is transfer by direct contact like when you cook something on the stove. Convection occurs when heat is transferred by movement like in the Earth's mantle. Radiation occurs when waves are used to transfer heat like sunlight.
What happens as the thermal energy is transferred from the core to the mantle?
how can something as massive as the pacific plate move
What happen as thermal energy is transferred from the core to the mantle?
CONVECTION CURRENT is the answer.
What happens as thermal energy is transfered from the core to the mantle?
how can something as massive as the pacific plate move
What layer of the earths structure produces the greatest amount of thermal energy?
the mantle
What is a plumes?
A superplume happens as a result of the cooling process in the Earth's mantle. They are thought to be a thermal abnormality.
What is a super plume?
A superplume happens as a result of the cooling process in the Earth's mantle. They are thought to be a thermal abnormality.
What causes the convection currents in the mantle?
The Earth's mantle has convection currents because the heat of the core acts similarly to the light bulb in our lava lamp. The core's heat energy is transferred to the mantle, causing it to rise towards the Earth's surface, which is cooler.
How his thermal energy transferred from one to another by convection?
Convection currents occur in liquid. Heat excites the matter near the source and causes it to rise, making nearby matter rush in to fill the space. Then that matter is heated, rises, and so on. A good example of this is the Earth's mantle: heat from the core is dispersed by convection currents.
What currents are they when are transferred within the mantle and fluid?
Convection currents.
Why can Iceland Japan and New Zealand make use of geothermal energy?
All three are volcanic islands with thermal vents reaching all the way down to the mantle.
What thermal do scientist first propose to mantle causes continental drift?
they what?
What happens to the mantle rock as you go deeper into the mantle?
earthquakes and volcanoes
