1. Moving in the right circles

2. Lava Lamp
A lava lamp consists of an enclosed container with two substances of different densities. One substance is wax and the other is a less dense oil.
Using heat from a light-bulb in the bottom of the lamp, the oil and wax are heated up.

3. Geologic Curiosities
Can you explain the motion of the wax in the lava lamp over time in terms of energy?
In terms of the lava lamp, where is an Endothermic action? Exothermic action?

4. Connection to Earth Science (Geology)
Energy moves through the earth
Either its transported or transferred

5. Heat transfer
Occurs when thermal energy is transferred from a warmer object to a cooler object

6. Types of heat transfer
Radiation Conduction Convection.

7. Radiation
The transfer of energy through empty space or a gas medium is called radiation.
No direct contact between a heat source and an object is required.

8. Conduction
Heat transfer by direct contact of particles of solid or liquid matter is called conduction.
The energy moves but the medium does not
An example is when a spoon heats up in a hot pot of soup.

9. Convection
The transfer of heat by the movement of a heated fluid (liquid or gas) is called convection.
The medium moves to transport the heat from one place to another

10. Does gas convect or radiate heat, energy?
Generally air convects , because it moves to transfer the heat
Forms of energy like light and UV Radiate through air, because the energy does not create air currents

11. The oil and wax movement in a lava lamp is an example of convection

12. Convection Gain heat, Faster atoms, spread out
Greater volume for same mass = less dense
Rise up, and lose heat to other objects
Pushed to side by newer, hotter material
Cools, loses heat, more dense, sinks

13. Other examples of convection

14. Hurricanes

15. Convection example
An example of convection occurs in heating a pot of soup on a stove.

16. Convection Current
Is the flow of less dense hot material upwards and more dense colder material outward and downward
Convection cycle or cell is one loop of a convection current

17. Convection in the earth

18. Results of convection
Heat added to lithosphere may melt the rock, forming magma that flows from volcanoes
There is a current created in the Asthenosphere causing rotation in the mat .
The crust and lithosphere also undergo pressure to move

19. Upwelling
Region of Astenosphere that the hottest material moves to the top of the layer

20. Convection Cycle
One complete rotation of material that moves from heat source to top of layer and back to source
For water, cycle can take seconds
For the Earth, cycle can take millions of years

21. Convection is the engine of the Earth
Heat from deep inside the Earth rises through conduction to the top of the mantle.
The material at the bottom of the Astenosphere begins to move upward as it becomes less dense this creates an area of upwelling

22. Convection cycle continued
3. As the heated material rises to the top of the layer it transfers its heat to the lithosphere/crust and begins to cool, and becomes denser again
4. The cooler material is pushed to the side by hotter material beneath
5. The cooler material sinks towards the bottom of the layer over time
6. Cycle repeated

23. Final Questions
Name at least 3 examples of convection cycles that can happen on earth.
How does heat effect density?

25. Difference in motion Astenosphere bends and slides
Crust/lithosphere breaks and is carried along

26. Steps to convection in a pot
As soup at the bottom of the pot gets hot, it expands and becomes less dense.
The warm, less dense soup moves upward, floating over cooler, denser soup.
At the surface, the warm soup spreads out and cools, becoming denser.
Then gravity pulls this cooler, denser soup down to the bottom, where it is heated again and begins to rise.

27. Heated lava lamp
When the lamp is turned on, both the wax and the oil absorb energy.
This causes the individual molecules of both substances to spread farther apart.
But the molecules of wax spread apart much more than the molecules of oil do

28. Density and heat
In eighth grade, you learned that the density of a substance changes when it absorbs energy.
As the molecules get more energy, they vibrate faster and farther, decreasing the density.
We imagined the molecules to be connected by little springs. When the substance absorbs energy, the “springs” stretch a little farther, increasing the volume of the material.
It has no effect on the mass of the material or the size of the individual molecules, only on the size of the sample.
If the volume of the sample increases and the mass does not, the density will decrease.