How energy is transferred
- Radiation: Waves or rays
- Example: Sunlight on skin
- Convection: Movement of materials that are different temperatures
- Example: Lava lamp lava heats up close to the light and rises, since it is cooler at the top, it cools and sinks
- Conduction: Contact
- Example: Touching a hot pan on the stone
Three processes on Earth that work because of convection currents
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Sources:
http://www.mansfieldct.org/schools/mms/staff/hand/convcondrad.htm
http://www.mansfieldct.org/schools/mms/staff/hand/convcondrad.htm