Question

How does the Sun's energy drive convection in the Earth's atmosphere? The Response area's energy warms the land and Response area on Earth. As they heat up, the Response area above them becomes warmer and Response area dense and begins to Response area. Near the top of the atmosphere, the air cools down and becomes Response area dense and begins to Response area, creating a circular motion. How does the Sun's energy drive convection in the Earth's oceans? The Sun's energy warms the oceans on Earth. The warm water moves towards the Response area and the colder water moves towards the Response area , creating a circular motion.

Answer 1

Answer:Convection is the transfer of heat energy in a fluid. This type of heating is most commonly seen in the kitchen with a boiling liquid.

Air in the atmosphere acts as a fluid. The sun's radiation strikes the ground, thus warming the rocks. As the rock's temperature rises due to conduction, heat energy is released into the atmosphere, forming a bubble of air which is warmer than the surrounding air. This bubble of air rises into the atmosphere. As it rises, the bubble cools with the heat contained in the bubble moving into the atmosphere.As the hot air mass rises, the air is replaced by the surrounding cooler, more dense air, what we feel as wind. These movements of air masses can be small in a certain region, such as local cumulus clouds, or large cycles in the troposphere, covering large sections of the earth. Convection currents are responsible for many weather patterns in the troposphere.

Explanation: The Transfer of Heat Energy

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. There are three ways heat is transferred into and through the atmosphere: