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How many years ago was the largest mass extinction?
The most extreme that we are aware of was the Permian Extinction about 252 million years ago, in which 95% of all life was killed. The cause is still unknown, although it is possible that this was an impact event.
How did the silurian time period end?
A mass extinction event/ice age marked the end of the Ordivician Period. The climate, location of landmasses, and number and diversity of species had changed dramatically since the beginning of the period. When the changes that were occurring during the mass extinction event leveled out, a new period began.
What is similar between inertial mass and gravitational mass?
Inertial mass is a quantitative measure of an object's resistance to the change of its speed. Gravitational mass is the property of the mass of an object that produces a gravitational field in the space surrounding the object.
What background did most of the soldiers come from in the American Civil War?
Most soldiers were farmers or other similar jobs
What are the release dates for Extinction - 2013?
Extinction - 2013 was released on: USA: 6 September 2013 (internet)
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 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.
What are mass extinction and background extinction different?
Mass extinctions refer to periods in Earth's history where a significant number of species go extinct in a short amount of time, often resulting from catastrophic events like asteroid impacts. Background extinctions, on the other hand, happen at a steady, low rate over long periods of time and are typically due to factors like competition for resources or changes in the environment.
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
