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Lava Lamp:

  • requires an external electrical heat source
  • man-made
  • constructed of glass and metal
  • paraffin inside moves quickly relative to magma in mantle
  • can be purchased
  • is transportable
  • comes in a variety of colors
  • easily observable
  • required temperature of operation less than 200o F

Earth's mantle:

  • occurs naturally
  • powered by Earth's internal heat
  • consists largely of ultra-mafic rock
  • temperatures can reach 4000o F
  • cannot be purchased, observed directly, or transported
  • is rather large compared to lava lamp, comprising 83% of Earth's total volume
  • movement of rock is extremely slow compared to movement of paraffin in lava lamp
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14y ago

Strange Question......I guess hotter magma rises to the surface of the mantle while colder magma sinks closer to the center....Sort of like a lava lamp!

When you plug in a lava lamp, it heats up at the bottom, just like the earth's magma. It's hot at the bottom and it cools at the top.

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11y ago

Sometimes it can be the colours (red or orange) but its mostly the wax is meant to look like lava hence lava lamp.

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A lava lamp has wax, oil, and water in it when all three of those things heat it is called convection. The three elements move all around.

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it uses a convection current

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