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What causes mantle dynamics?
The mantle is the Earth's crust. Mantle dynamics are caused by the heating and cooling of this layer of crust. This heating and cooling causes a slow creeping motion in the Earth's rocky mantle.
What creates the currents in the mantle of the earth?
The heat generated from the decay of radioactive elements in the Earth's interior drives convective currents in the mantle. This process causes the hot mantle material to rise towards the surface, cool, and then sink back down in a circular motion known as mantle convection.
What layer is directly beneath the Earth's crust is it a solid liquid or gas?
The Earth's crusts floats on the so-called upper mantle. The upper Mantle is predominantly solid but it can act like a fluid. You could compare it to soft plastic in that respect.
What is the mantles cycle that involves heating rising cooling and sinking?
The mantle cycle you are referring to is known as mantle convection. It involves the movement of hot, less dense mantle material rising towards the Earth's surface, cooling, then sinking back down into the mantle. This process is a driving force behind plate tectonics and the overall dynamics of Earth's lithosphere.
What are the thickest layers of the earth?
Thermosphere or the ionosphere is the thickest layer on earth. It reaches a height 400 kilometers.
Compare the heating in the mantle to a cooking pot of soup.?
The heated soup rises to the surface, spreads and begins to cool, While convective flow can be observed easily in a pot of boiling soup, the idea emphasized mantle convection, and most earth scientists believed that is how the Earth evolved.
What is the source of heating in the mantle?
Source of heat in mantle come from radioactive decay of the radioactive elements inside the earth..
What part of a cell is related to the earth's mantle?
I suppose you could compare the mantle to the cell wall or cell membrane.
What part of the earths mantle that flows and moves the plates of the earth?
Mantle plumes are in the mantle, BELOW the Earth's crust. The circulation of heat from the lower mantle to the upper mantle can cause "hot spots" in the overlying crust, heating the magma in the areas.
How does the temperature of the Earth's mantle compare to the temperatures of the other layers of the Earth?
The temperature of the Earth's mantle is higher than the temperatures of the outer layers, such as the crust, but lower than the core.
How does the temperature of the earth's mantle compare to the other layers of the earth?
The temperature of the Earth's mantle is higher than the outer crust but lower than the Earth's core. The mantle is composed of solid rock that can deform and flow over long periods of time due to its high temperature.
What causes mantle dynamics?
The mantle is the Earth's crust. Mantle dynamics are caused by the heating and cooling of this layer of crust. This heating and cooling causes a slow creeping motion in the Earth's rocky mantle.
How does heat in the Earth's mantle relate to hotspots and geysers?
Heat in the Earth's mantle is a driving force behind hotspots and geysers. Hotspots are areas where magma plumes rise from the mantle, creating volcanic activity at the surface. Geysers are hot springs that erupt periodic jets of water and steam due to the heating of groundwater by magma and heat from the mantle. Both hotspots and geysers stem from the heat within the Earth's mantle that affects the surface geology.
What are two main sources of heating in the earth?
The two main sources of heating in the Earth are radioactive decay of elements like uranium, thorium, and potassium in the mantle, and residual heat from the Earth's formation over 4.5 billion years ago. These heat sources contribute to the movement of tectonic plates and drive processes like mantle convection and volcanic activity.
Compare earth's interior to the interior of an apple?
both earth and an apple has a core and a mantle ( sort of) and both have a crust wich is the skin of the apple thnx enjoy =)
What creates the currents in the mantle of the earth?
The heat generated from the decay of radioactive elements in the Earth's interior drives convective currents in the mantle. This process causes the hot mantle material to rise towards the surface, cool, and then sink back down in a circular motion known as mantle convection.
What layer is directly beneath the Earth's crust is it a solid liquid or gas?
The Earth's crusts floats on the so-called upper mantle. The upper Mantle is predominantly solid but it can act like a fluid. You could compare it to soft plastic in that respect.
