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Typically, cold-blooded animals are more likely to survive mass extinctions than their warmblooded counterparts. Animals who are lower in the food chain are also more likely to survive. Mass extinctions, however, vary in their causes, and so also vary in their effects.
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How does mass extinction affect species that survive?
Every animal is a part of the food chain, so mass extinction can have very bad consequences for the species that survive. The surviving species must learn to work around the animal that has recently become extinct.
What is the mass extinction?
the holocene extinction
How did sharks survive earths major mass extinction?
not sure but you can look it up by searching earths major mass extinctions.your welcome. for anymore questions contact 1800-not-telling-you! hahahahahah
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.
What is a synonym for mass extinction?
genocide
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.
What type of reptile did not survive the mass extinction event at the end of the mesozoic era?
Dinosaurs
How does mass extinction affect species that survive?
Every animal is a part of the food chain, so mass extinction can have very bad consequences for the species that survive. The surviving species must learn to work around the animal that has recently become extinct.
What is the effect of mass extinction?
The effect of mass extinction is extinction, death of a mass
How the species can change?
Species can change is there is a mass extinction or if the type of species changed the type of climate or terrain which would would make the species evolve to its new environment so that it can survive.
What is the disappearance of a species from all part of an environment?
Is extinction the word you're looking for ?
What has occurred when a large number of species die out over short period of time?
That is usually referred to as a Mass Extinction, and what has happened is some very major event has occurred that cuts off the animals' ability to either eat, produce offspring, or otherwise survive, without a chance of migration to better locations.
Did no acient animals survive?
Yes, some ancient animals survived the mass extinction primarily by living underground or underwater.
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
Can you use mass extinction in a sentence?
The dinosaurs fell victim to a mass extinction.
What would the impact of earth be if no ozone layer?
If there was no ozone, no life would be there. There would be mass extinction.
