convection
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On Jupiter, lightning offers insight into convection, the process that moves heat through the atmosphere.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
A new study proposes that the mysterious plumes are created by thermal convection.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026
Others could be linked to heat driven convection within the mantle as it recycles subducted slabs of Earth's crust.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2026
Mantle convection: The slow, heat-driven movement of material within Earth's mantle that transports energy from the interior toward the surface.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025
The movements occur not just laterally as the Earth’s plates move across the surface, but up and down as well, as rocks rise and fall under the churning process known as convection.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing convection
Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer - Introductory
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