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The diagram shows currents that form as water is heated.
A full pot sits on a stove. 2 pairs of curved arrows are inside the pot, Each has a blue arrow curving downward from the top of pot and a red arrow curving up from the bottom of the pot.
Which would most likely contain this same type of current?
the air above a wildfire
a carton of milk in a refrigerator
a snowdrift on a shady mountainside
a boulder in a hot desert
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Answer: the air above a wildfire.
Reason: the diagram shows convection currents — buoyant flow in a fluid caused by heating from below (hot fluid rises, cools, then sinks). The hot air above a fire behaves the same way. A snowdrift or boulder are solids (no fluid convection), and a milk carton in a refrigerator is being cooled (and largely insulated) so it won’t produce the same rising hot‑air convection pattern.
Reason: the diagram shows convection currents — buoyant flow in a fluid caused by heating from below (hot fluid rises, cools, then sinks). The hot air above a fire behaves the same way. A snowdrift or boulder are solids (no fluid convection), and a milk carton in a refrigerator is being cooled (and largely insulated) so it won’t produce the same rising hot‑air convection pattern.
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