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How do you use mass extinction in a sentence?
The mass extinction of dinosaurs were caused volcanoes that cause global warming with their toxic gases, therefore, killing the plants, starving the plant eating dinosaurs to death, and with no more plant eating dinosaurs, the meat eating dinosaurs died, too.
Can you use mass extinction in a sentence?
The dinosaurs fell victim to a mass extinction.
What caused each mass extinction?
Asteroids.
Is the Jurassic period a geologic time that followed the mass extinction of dinosaurs?
No. The Jurassic was in the middle of the dinosaurs' reign on Earth. The time period after the extinction of the dinosaurs is referred to as the Paleogene or the Tertiary.
What is an example of mass extinction?
When the meteorite hit Earth and killed the dinosaurs.
What unit of geologic time followed the mass extinction of dinosaurs?
Jurassic period
When was the last mass extinction?
The Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event 65 million years ago was the last mass-extinction, and many believe that humans are causing a mass-extinction right now.
How do you use the word mass extinction in a sentence?
We are still not sure what caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, though an asteroid impact seems to be the popular theory.Scientists believe we may be heading towards another mass extinction event.
Why weren't dinosaurs and cavemen together?
There was a mass extinction, killing of the dinosaurs before early hominids (humans) came along.
What is the name for the modern era which began approximtely 65 million years ago with the mass extinction of the dinosaurs?
The modern era that began approximately 65 million years ago with the mass extinction of the dinosaurs is called the Cenozoic era. It is also known as the Age of Mammals, as mammals began to dominate the Earth during this time.
Why is the extinction of the dinosaurs attributed to an asteroid impact?
The original observation was that in the fossil records there is a layer with high levels of iridium and osmium at the time of dinosaur extinction. Iridium and osmium are common is asteroids. For the layer to be all over the globe it must have been a major strike which would have caused global wide climate change causing a mass extinction.
Who disappeared during the last mass extinction?
Notable extinctions during the last mass extinction included all non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and ammonites.
