Asked by Bob

Which is a type of heat transfer that causes the air at the top floor of a building to be hotter than the air at the bottom floor of a building?

conduction
convection
radiation
reflection

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Convection.

Warm air rises and cooler air sinks, so heat is carried upward by the motion of the air (buoyancy-driven convection). Conduction is transfer through solids, radiation is electromagnetic heat transfer, and reflection is not a heat-transfer mechanism.