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    The document discusses the two main sources of internal heat in Earth: primordial heat from formation and radiogenic heat from radioactive decay. It then describes the three types of heat transfer in Earth's interior - conduction governs heat transfer through solid portions like the core; convection dominates in fluid zones like the mantle and outer core; and radiation is the least important mode and controls temperatures at the surface. Convection currents in the mantle circulate warm material upwards and cool material downwards, affecting tectonic plate movements and mountain/land formation at the surface.

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    2the Earth's Internal Heat-Endogenic Processes

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    The document discusses the two main sources of internal heat in Earth: primordial heat from formation and radiogenic heat from radioactive decay. It then describes the three types of heat transfer in Earth's interior - conduction governs heat transfer through solid portions like the core; convection dominates in fluid zones like the mantle and outer core; and radiation is the least important mode and controls temperatures at the surface. Convection currents in the mantle circulate warm material upwards and cool material downwards, affecting tectonic plate movements and mountain/land formation at the surface.

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    The document discusses the two main sources of internal heat in Earth: primordial heat from formation and radiogenic heat from radioactive decay. It then describes the three types of heat transfer in Earth's interior - conduction governs heat transfer through solid portions like the core; convection dominates in fluid zones like the mantle and outer core; and radiation is the least important mode and controls temperatures at the surface. Convection currents in the mantle circulate warm material upwards and cool material downwards, affecting tectonic plate movements and mountain/land formation at the surface.

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    The document discusses the two main sources of internal heat in Earth: primordial heat from formation and radiogenic heat from radioactive decay. It then describes the three types of heat transfer in Earth's interior - conduction governs heat transfer through solid portions like the core; convection dominates in fluid zones like the mantle and outer core; and radiation is the least important mode and controls temperatures at the surface. Convection currents in the mantle circulate warm material upwards and cool material downwards, affecting tectonic plate movements and mountain/land formation at the surface.

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    The Earth’s Internal Heat

    Sources of heat in our


    planet can be identified
    as Primordial and
    Radiogenic heat.
    Primordial Heat
    • During the early formation of the Earth, the
    internal heat energy that gradually gathered
    together by means of dispersion in the planet
    during its few million years of evolution is called
    Primordial heat.
    Radiogenic Heat
    The thermal energy released as a result of spontaneous nuclear
    disintegration is called Radiogenic Heat.
    • It involves the disintegration of natural radioactive elements
    inside the earth – like Uranium, Thorium and Potassium. Uranium
    is a special kind of element because when it decays,
    heat(radiogenic) is produced.
    THREE TYPES OF HEAT TRANSFER
    CONDUCTION

    Conduction governs the thermal conditions in


    almost entire solid portions of the Earth. It can be
    defined as the process by which heat energy is
    transmitted through collisions between neighboring
    atoms or molecules.
    Heat from the Earth's core and radiation from the
    Sun is transferred to the surface of the Earth by
    conduction.
    Contact of the atmosphere with these warm
    surfaces transfers thermal energy, which then
    CONVECTION

    • Convection dominates the thermal conditions in the


    zones where large quantities of fluids (molten rocks)
    exist, and thus governs the heat transport in the fluid
    outer core and the mantle.
    • In geological time scale, the mantle behaves as a
    viscous fluid due to the existence of high
    temperatures.
    •
    RADIATION

    • Radiation is the least important mode of heat


    transport in the Earth. The process of heat
    exchange between the Sun and the Earth, through
    radiation, controls the temperatures at the Earth's
    surface.
    • Inside the Earth, radiation is significant only in the
    hottest parts of the core and the lower mantle.
    • Figure A shows a convection cell, warm material rises (up to the surface
    of the earth) and cool material sinks. These cooled materials will
    eventually turn to land formation. In mantle convection, the heat source
    is the core. The core of the earth is very hot. It is nearly as hot as the
    surface of the sun – about 6000˚
    • Figure A shows the process of convection in the earth’s
    mantle. How does it affect the formation of mountains and the
    temperature in the surface (ground)?
    • b. How the convection current affects the movement of
    tectonic plates?
    • c. How convection in earth’s interior and conduction in the
    surface affect the temperature in our atmosphere?
    • d. How subduction cause the formation of land mass like
    mountains and volcano?
    • e. Why does earthquake occur in subduction zone? (The area
    where subduction occur)
    EVALUATION

    Direction: Tell whether the following earth processes are a result of CONDUCTION,
    CONVECTION or RADIATION:

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