Convection currents in Earth's mantle are caused by the rise of hot material rising towards the crust, becoming cooler and sinking back down. This process occurs repeatedly, causing the currents to constantly flow. The movement of the currents plays a factor in the movement of the mantle.

The mantle convection clearly describes how the mantle moves, transferring heat from the white-hot core to the lithosphere. The mantle is usually being heated below and the cooling happens above and the general temperature of the area gets dropped over a long period of time.

Hot buoyant Magma is being transferred through convection currents, to the lithosphere at the plate boundaries and hot spots. Also, convection current moves cooler materials from the crust to the interior of the earth through a process that is widely known as subduction.