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Geologists believe that covection currents are what causes continental drift. If covection currents never happened and their force didnt move the continents then we'd all live on one large super continent.
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∙ 11y agoIn a convection current, the particles nearest to the heat gain thermal energy, so start to vibrate more and move slightly further apart from one another, therefore becoming less dense and rising. Once these particle get further away from the heat source, they begin to cool down, so the the particles vibrate less and get closer together. This means that they become more dense and sink back down towards the heat sorce, where once again they are heated and the process starts all over again. A convection current can only happen in a liquid or a gas.
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covection?
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They both have covection currents and effect the weather
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Wave action, Volcanic activity and land and water erosion are needed to have salinity currents form. Hope this helped@ :)
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Well, i don't know what causes them but i do know how they form.Convection currents are formed somewhere in the upper mantle below the asthenosphere and is called the mesosphere.the mantle material,(the hotter material) rises on the surface of the asthenosphere,and pushes the cooler material out of the way,sinking back into the Earth becoming more and less dense each time. Hope this helped! :)
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The sun is the original source of energy for such winds and currents.
The transfer of heat by circulation or movement of gases?
covection
The transfer of heat by the movement of particles in fluids is called?
its covection
