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Some believe it was a natural occurring ice age.
Others say it resulted from the impact of an asteroid, comet, or meteor that released enough debris into the atmosphere to trigger a "impact winter" that blocked sunlight from reaching the ground and prevented plants needing photosynthesis from growing resulting in the starvation of dinosaurs and other creatures.
It could also have been the great flood that has been recorded all over the world and the dinosaurs never made it into Noahs ark :)
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Can you use mass extinction in a sentence?
The dinosaurs fell victim to a mass extinction.
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.
Did asteroids cause the mass extinction of dinosaurs?
I think so.
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
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.
What survived the extinction event of the dinosaurs-?
Avian dinosaurs survived the extinction event of the dinosaurs.
Who disappeared during the last mass extinction?
Notable extinctions during the last mass extinction included all non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and ammonites.
What is the name for the modern era which began approximately 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.
