When the metal spoon comes in contact with the hot soup, heat transfer from hot soup to the spoon because of difference in temperature of the two. The kind of heat transfer represented here is conduction. In conduction, heat is transferred from a region of higher temperature to a region of lower temperature when there is a physical contact between the two.
The higher the solar activity, and the hotter it is, the more the oceans heat up and water evaporates into the atmosphere. High amounts of water vapor causes things like hurricanes. However, oceans have a high absorption rate of heat so they can absorb a lot of it without heating up the atmosphere, which is pretty good or else the Earth would overheat.
