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Since about 90% of dinosaurs were herbivores (plant eaters), it was thought that when an asteroid hit earth and many tons of dust was thrown into the atmosphere that the result was a "long night" due to the lack of sunlight that was able to reach earth, the plants died out and without a food source, so did the dinosaurs.
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What is the mass extinction?
the holocene extinction
What is a probable cause of two mass extictions?
For all mass extinctions (except the Cretaceous/Paleogene extinction) two probable causes are volcanic eruptions and ocean anoxia.
What is a synonym for mass extinction?
Catastrophic extinction event.
What began and ended with mass extinction?
Mesozoic
How do I use Permian Extinction in a sentence?
No, child, I was not a witness to the Permian Extinction. The Permian extinction event is the only known mass extinction of insects. The Permian extinction event occurred about 252 million years ago.
What is the effect of mass extinction?
The effect of mass extinction is extinction, death of a mass
What kind of enviromental changes causes mass extinction?
When human contributes into global warming some animals like polar bears and those who cannot bear heat may cause mass extinction
What is the mass extinction?
the holocene 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.
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.
How are mass extinction and mass extinction related?
they r related by having the same family blood
What is a probable cause of two mass extictions?
For all mass extinctions (except the Cretaceous/Paleogene extinction) two probable causes are volcanic eruptions and ocean anoxia.
What is a synonym for mass extinction?
Catastrophic extinction event.
What is mass depletions?
Mass depletion is an event in which extinction rates are higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as a mass extinction.
