DEAR STUDENTS

Grades: 11 HUMSS
Senior High
School
Most Essential Learning
Competencies

Objectives:
- Describe where the Earth’s
Internal heat comes from; and
- Describe how magma is
formed.
Duration: 50 min Senior High School Grades: 11 HUMSS

Beneath the surface

Earth and Life Science

Earth’s Internal Heat

Learning objectives

•Describe the parts and functions of Earth’s interior.

•Describe where the Earth’s internal heat comes from.
•Identify the sources of Earth’s internal heat; namely,
radiogenic heat and primordial heat.
•Describe the processes of heat transfer in Earth’s
mantle.
Duration: 50 min Senior High School Grades: 11 HUMSS

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Duration: 50 min Senior High School Grades: 11 HUMSS

INNER CORE

OUTER CORE

MANTLE

CRUST CRUST

MANTLE

OUTER CORE

INNER CORE
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Lesson overview

It may seem that earth’s only source of

heat is the sun. That is partially true. The
sun heats the earth only a few meters
below the surface. Not far beneath the
surface it gets hot again. The high
temperatures below are a result of the
heat produced by the planetary core.
EARTH’S SOURCES OF HEAT
PRIMORDIAL HEAT
3. Heat from beneath
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3. Heat from beneath
3. Heat from beneath SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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Sources of Heat and Heat Transfer

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Sources of Heat and Heat Transfer

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Figure A 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.
- Figure B shows the process of
conduction on 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.
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7. Final wrap-up