The three principal sources of the internal heat of terrestrial planets are

A) accretion, differentiation, and eruption.
B) accretion, differentiation, and radioactivity.
C) convection, differentiation, and eruption.
D) conduction, convection, and eruption.
E) conduction, differentiation, and accretion.


B

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