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usually an asteroid decintigrates before it hits the earth.
If an asteroid hit the Earth depending on its size, the smoke and debris of the impact would block out all sunlight to Earth. It would become unbearably cold and most life would die out. This is a theory of how the dinosaurs went extinct.this is right
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When was the first mass extinction?
540 million years ago was the first mass extinction
When did organisms suffer the largest mass extinction known?
The most devastating mass extinction occurred in the Late Permian (~250 million years ago).
What is the disappearance of a species from all part of an environment?
Is extinction the word you're looking for ?
Which two eras ended with mass extinction?
my mom
The death of many species in a short time known as what?
Mass extinction.
What happens during and after a mass extinction?
During: Lots of screaming. After: Much, much less screaming.
What is the effect of mass extinction?
The effect of mass extinction is extinction, death of a mass
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
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 happens if the greenhouse gas gets out of control?
heat is trapped in the atmosphere, ice melts, flooding, mass extinction, ect.
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.
