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Where do convection currents occur?

in areas with the same same attitude
In areas with the same temperature
in areas with the different air pressures
in areas with the different cloud types

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Convection currents in the magma drive plate tectonics. Heat generated from the radioactive decay of elements deep in the interior of the Earth creates magma (molten rock) in the aesthenosphere. Theaesthenosphere (70 ~ 250 km) is part of the mantle, the middle sphere of the Earth that extends to 2900 km.

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