Describe the difference between a hot cup of water and cold in terms of thermal energy.

If you had two cups of water, one filled with hot water and another with cold water, the cold water will retain more molecules. The compounds that make up hot and cold water are the same. One oxygen and two hydrogen atoms make up each molecule. The pace at which the molecules wobble about is the disparity between them.

Explanation:

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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. the aesthenosphere (70 ~ 250 km) is part of the mantle, the middle sphere of the earth that extends to 2900 km.