Camilo and his parents travel to Yellowstone National Park for a vacation. They read that below Yellowstone National Park lies a supervolcano that is responsible for small earthquakes and hotspot activity in the area.
The convection of hot rock transfers heat throughout Yellowstone National Park. This heat transfer causes geysers and hot springs to form. Explain the process of convection that rock in the mantle of Earth undergoes.
The Earth is hotter at the center and cooler at the surface. Convection occurs when cooler, denser magma near the surface sinks back toward the core. Warmer, less dense magma near the core is displaced upward toward the surface.
At Yellowstone, there is a hotspot where the crust is thinner and the magma comes closer to the surface.
