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How are the terms background extinction and mass extinction related?
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How are mass extinction and mass extinction related?
they r related by having the same family blood
How are extinction and mass extinction related?
they r related by having the same family blood
What are mass extinction and background extinction different?
Mass extinction - More than 50% of the population went extinct in a short period of time.Background extinction - An average rate of extinction occurred during a given time period.
How are background extinction and mass extinction similar?
Both involve at least a few species dying out because of failure to adapt to the changing environment.
Why do you think most extinction's occur as background extinctions?
Most extinctions occur as background extinctions because they are longer time periods unlike the shorter mass extinctions which there were only two in the Paleozoic era, the Ordovician mass extinction, and the Permian/Triassic extinction in which 95% of all marine animals became extinct
What is the effect of mass extinction?
The effect of mass extinction is extinction, death of a mass
Which two terms are related balance second or mass Explain how the terms are related?
seconds are up to 60 and mass is unlimited
What is cause background extinction?
It is the fate of most living things eventually to go extinct. standard commonplace rate of extinction not associated with a mass extinction.
How are the terms mass and matter related?
They are related because in order for something to have matter, it must also have mass.
What are the extinction of animals in the very distant past?
There were five major extinction events in the past. They are called the Cretaceous-Tertiary (or K-T) extinction event, the late Devonian mass extinction, the Permian mass extinction, the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction and the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction event.
What is the mass extinction?
the holocene extinction
How does the background rate of extinction differ from mass extinctions?
The background rate of extinction is much smaller than those that occur during a mass extinction. For example, carnotaurus sastrei went extinct during the mid-Cretaceous, when only a handful of dinosaurs went extinct. On the other hand, 65 million years ago, all dinosaurs went extinct during the K/T mass extinction event.
