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Take some water in a vessel and heat it on a stove. Touch the surface of the water. It will be cold.
  
Touch it after some time. It will be hot now.
 
How did the heat which was supplied at the bottom reach the top?
  
When water in the vessel is heated, water molecules at the  receive heat energy and . Then the molecules at the   and get heated. This kind of heat transfer is known as . This is how air in the atmosphere is also heated.

Here, the heat transfer takes places from high temperature to places of low temperature , and it is called .