Answer is: thermal conduction.
<span>Thermal
conduction is the transfer of heat through physical
contact. Thermal conduction is the transfer of heat by
microscopic collisions of particles. Heat spontaneously flows from a
hotter to a colder body.
</span><span>The thermal energy of that core is transferred to the surface of the Earth and lower levels of the oceans by conduction. Water in lakes and oceans transfers heat to the surface by convection.</span>
They will mold into different shapes
It will belong to the metals because metals bond with nonmetals like chlorine to form ionic compounds