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    Why the Earth’s

    Interior Is Hot

    PREPARED AND PRESENTED BY: CARREN G. PARUNGAO


    REVIEW

    1. How fossil fuels are formed?


    2. What are the different types of
    fossil fuels?
    3. Give advantages and
    disadvantages of using fossil fuels.
    Directions. Label the diagram below with the
    names of each layers. Include a brief description
    of each of the Earth’s layers.
    LESSON OBJECTIVES

    1. Explain why the Earth’s interior


    is hot;
    2. Identify different reasons why
    Earth’s interior hot;
    3. Value the importance of studying
    the Earth’s interior.
    REVIEW
    EARTH’S FOUR LAYERS
    01 CRUST
    ➢ the thinnest layer of the Earth
    ➢ measures about 40 km on average, ranging
    from 5–70 km (~3–44 miles) in depth.
    ➢ its temperatures vary from air temperature
    on top to about 1600 degrees Fahrenheit (870
    degrees Celcius) in its deepest parts
    02 MANTLE
    ➢ extends down 2,890 km, making it the thickest
    layer of Earth.
    ➢ the largest layer of the Earth, 1800 miles
    thick.
    ➢ composed of very hot, dense rock.
    ➢ its temperature varies from 1600 degrees
    Fahrenheit at the top to about 4000 degrees
    Fahrenheit near the bottom
    03 OUTER CORE
    ➢ due to its hotness the metals in it are all in a
    liquid state.
    ➢ located about 1800 miles beneath the crust
    and is about 1400 miles thick.
    ➢ composed of the melted metals nickel and
    iron.
    ➢ The outer core is a low viscosity fluid
    04 INNER CORE
    ➢ has temperatures and pressures so great that
    the metals are squeezed together and are not
    able to move about like a liquid but are forced
    to vibrate in place as a solid.
    ➢ The inner core begins about 4000 miles
    beneath the crust and is about 800 miles thick.
    ➢ The temperatures may reach 9000 degrees F
    and the pressures are 45,000,000 pounds per
    square inch (3,000,000 times the air pressure
    on you at sea level)
    Heat energy plays a vital role in our planet.
    It is one of the extreme factors in what
    makes the world livable. If you think of a
    volcano, you know Earth must be hot
    inside. The heat inside of our planet moves
    continents, build mountains and causes
    earthquakes, but where does all this heat
    inside the earth come from?
    Main Reasons Why The Interior Of The Earth Is Very HOT
    1. HEAT FROM WHEN THE PLANET FORMED AND
    ACCRETED, WHICH HAS NOT YET BEEN LOST
    ➢A lot of Earth’s heat is left over from when our planet
    having been made, four-and-a-half billion years ago.
    ➢Earth formed from a cloud of gas and dust in space.
    Solid particles, called “planetesimals” condensed out of
    the cloud.
    ➢Heat from accretion and bombardment of the Earth
    during the early stages of formation (accretional
    energy).
    2. FRICTIONAL HEATING
    ➢ Frictional heating, caused by denser core material sinking to
    the center of the planet.
    ➢ Some of the heat in the middle layers of the interior are hot
    because the deeper core is cooling and releasing heat.
    ➢ Earth is cooling now – but very, very slowly.
    ➢ Earth is close to a steady temperature state.
    ➢ Over the past several billion years, it might have cooled a
    couple of hundred degrees.
    ➢ Earth keeps a nearly steady temperature, because it makes
    heat in its interior.
    3. RADIOACTIVE DECAY

    ➢aka- radiogenic heat


    ➢the heat generated by long-term
    radioactive decay
    ➢disintegration of natural radioactive
    elements inside the earth
    3. RADIOACTIVE DECAY

    ➢ It involves the decomposing of natural


    radioactive elements inside Earth – like uranium.
    Without this process of radioactive decay, there
    would be fewer volcanoes and earthquakes – and
    less building of Earth’s vast mountain ranges.
    This process contributes more than half of the
    heat in the earth.
    3. RADIOACTIVE DECAY

    ➢Uranium is a special kind of element


    because when it decays, heat (radiogenic)
    is produced. Estimated at 47 terawatts
    (TW), the flow of heat from Earth's interior
    to the surface.
    Generalization

    ➢Why Earth’s interior is hot?


    ➢How these reasons affect the
    Earth’s interior hotness?
    THANK YOU

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