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Review
01 What are the exogenic process?

02 What is weathering?

03 What are the two types of weathering?

04 What are different agents of erosion?

"IT'S GETTING HOTTER"
THE EARTH'S INTERNAL HEAT

PREPARED BY: DAN PHILIP G. DE GUZMAN

MOST ESSENTIAL
LEARNING
COMPETENCY
Describe where the Earth’s internal heat comes
from. (S11/12ES-Ib-14)
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1.Define the sources of Earth’s internal heat?

2. Differentiate the differences of primordial and

radiogenic heat?

3.Enumerate are the different heat transfer processes?

4. Appreciate the importance of Earth’s internal heat?

 Guide Questions
1.What are the sources of Earth’s internal heat ?
2.What is primordial heat ?
3.What is radiogenic heat?
5.What are the examples of natural radioactive elements inside the
earth?
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 Guide Questions
1.What are the sources of Earth’s internal heat ?
2.What is primordial heat ?
3.What is radiogenic heat?
5.What are the examples of natural radioactive elements inside the
earth?
 FILL THE HEAT
Write RH for radiogenic heat
and PH for primordial heat.

• Presence of different isotopes of heat producing

element in the mantle and crust.

• Internal heat accumulated by dissipation of planet.

• Release of accretional energy.
• Processes involved in mantle convection.
• Release of thermal energy as a result of spontaneous
nuclear disintegration.
The Earth's Internal Heat
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?
SOURCES OF HEAT IN
OUR PLANET

PRIMORDIAL HEAT
RADIOGENIC HEAT
 PRIMORDIAL HEAT
The major contribution of this internal heat
is the accretional energy – the energy deposited during the early
formation of a planet.

Today, the surface of the earth is made of a cold rigid rock since 4.5
billion years ago, the earth’s surface cools from
the outside but the core is still made of extremely hot material.
 RADIOGENIC HEAT
• The thermal energy released as a result of spontaneous
nuclear disintegration.
• It involves the disintegration of natural radioactive elements inside the earth – like
Uranium, Thorium and Potassium.
 Estimated at 47 terawatts (TW), the flow of heat from
Earth's interior to the surface and it comes from two
main sources in equal amounts:

• The radiogenic heat produced by the

PRIMORDIAL HEAT
50%
RADIOGENIC HEAT
50%
radioactive decay of isotopes in the mantle
and crust.
• The primordial heat left over from the
formation of
the Earth.
 Without the process of
radioactive decay, there
would be fewer
volcanoes and earthquakes
– and less formation of
earth’s vast mountain
ranges.
PROCESSES OF HEAT
TRANSFER
CONDUCTION
CONVECTION
RADIATION
 CONDUCTION
Governs the thermal conditions in almost entire solid portions of the Earth and plays a very
important role in the lithosphere. Its processes happen in the earth’s surface.

Conduction is how air molecules come in contact with

the warmer surface of the land or ocean, resulting to the increase of its thermal
energy through conduction. The thermal energy of the core is transferred to the
surface of the earth and the lower levels of ocean by conduction.
 During the day, sunlight heats the
ground, which in turn heats the air
directly above it via conduction. At night,
the ground cools and the heat flows from
the warmer air directly above to the
cooler ground via conduction.
CONDUCTION
 CONVECTION
Convection dominates the thermal conditions in the zones where large quantities of fluids
(molten rocks) exist, and thus governs the heat transport in the fluid outer core and the mantle.

In geological time scale, the mantle behaves as a viscous fluid

due to the existence of high temperatures.
 In mantle convection, the heat source is the
core. Convection current is relevant to the
movement of tectonic plate because the heat
builds up
pressure underneath the crust (tectonic plates).
As they become unstable, they push against
each other (subduction) and rise upwards or
one goes under the other.
shows a convection cell, warm material rises (up to the surface of the earth) and cool material sinks.

These cooled materials will eventually turn to land formation.

 RADIATION
Radiation is the least important mode of heat transport in the Earth. The process of heat
exchange between the Sun and the Earth, through radiation, controls the
temperatures at the Earth's surface.

Inside the Earth, radiation is significant only in the hottest parts of the core and the lower
mantle. When the land and water become warm in summer, they emit long – wavelength
infrared radiation that is readily absorbed by the atmosphere.
APPLICATION
 ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS
1.In food production, how a certain process of heat transfer can be
involved? Give an example situation.
2. In formation of landmasses like mountains, why Earth’s internal
heat is important?
 LET'S SUM IT UP
1. What are the sources of Earth’s internal heat?
2.What are the differences of primordial and radiogenic heat?
3.What are the different heat transfer processes?
4. Why Earth’s internal heat is important?
ASSESSMENT
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