Question

What is the best description of how heat is transferred from deep in the earth to the surface?

a. Conduction brings hot magma up through the mantle toward the crust, where it cools and sinks.
b. Convection brings hot magma up through the mantle toward the crust, where it cools and sinks.
c. Convection brings hot magma up from the core to the crust, where it cools and sinks.
d. Conduction brings hot magma up from the core to the crust, where it cools and sinks.

Answer 1

The answer is C hope this helped

Answer 2

pretty sure it's C,

Step-by-step explanation:

Mantle convection is the very slow creeping motion of Earth's solid silicate mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior to the planet's surface. ... This hot added material cools down by conduction and convection of heat.