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Which best describes how air moves during convection?

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Answer:

warm air is displaced by cooler, denser air.

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During convection, cool and dense air falls through the more warm and less dense air. The warm air having less mass  is being displaced by the cooler which is much heavy. Convection always involves the air rising through the atmosphere.
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