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Samuel puts a pot of water on the stove to boil and remembers when his teacher taught the class about convection, which is fluid movement driven by heat. samuel recalls that convection in the earth’s mantle involves the movement of

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Convection is when heat is transferred by the movement of currents within a fluid or air. So, in Earth's mantle, large amounts of heat are transferred by convection currents. Heat from the core and the mantle cause convection currents in the mantle. Hope this answers the question.
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