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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.
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What is the mass extinction?
the holocene extinction
When all the in individuals of a species have died what is it called?
The death of every member of a species is called extinction. When a large number of different species is dies out at the same time it is called mass extinction.
What is a synonym for mass extinction?
genocide
What began and ended with mass extinction?
Mesozoic
What may have caused the first mass extinction 65 million years ago?
An asteroid impact caused a mass extinction about 65 million years ago
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
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.
What happens when many different living things die out at once?
Mass extinction
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.
Can you use mass extinction in a sentence?
The dinosaurs fell victim to a mass extinction.
What is it called when a high percentage of the species on earth dies off at a particular line?
This would be called a mass extinction or mass die off.This would be called a mass extinction.
When was the first mass extinction?
540 million years ago was the first mass extinction
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.
