The sun
The heat source for our planet is the sun. Energy from the sun is transferred through space and through the earth's atmosphere to the earth's surface. Since this energy warms the earth's surface and atmosphere, some of it is or becomes heat energy.
The arrangement of particles that make up an ionic compound would be an ionic lattice type of crystal arrangement. An ionic lattice type of structure will be formed due to many of the ionic bonds formed between the oppositely charged ions of the metal and nonmetal.
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atom is the answer I think