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What is the primary way that volcanoes and can trigger a mass extinction?
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Gasses released by a massive volcanic event can cause catastrophic climate changes. Carbon dioxide will raise global temperatures. while sulfur dioxide will lower temperatures.
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volcanic debris changes the climate
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What is the mass extinction?
the holocene 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.
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 one type of catastrophic change that can cause a mass extinction?
One type of catastrophic change that can cause a mass extinction is an asteroid impact. When a large asteroid collides with the Earth, it can release massive amounts of energy, cause widespread destruction, trigger tsunamis and wildfires, and create a global "impact winter" due to the release of dust and debris into the atmosphere. Such an event is believed to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
How could volcanoes trigger a mass extinction?
Volcanic debris changes the climate.
What would trigger a climate change that can lead to mass extinction?
A large asteroid colliding with the Earth would trigger a great cooling that might lead to some extinctions.A large burning of fossil fuels (like we have been doing for 200 years) would trigger a great global warming that might lead to the extinction of all life on earth.
What is the effect of mass extinction?
The effect of mass extinction is extinction, death of a mass
What is the primary way that volcano's can trigger a mass extinction?
Gasses released by a massive volcanic event can cause catastrophic climate changes. Carbon dioxide will raise global temperatures. while sulfur dioxide will lower temperatures.
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.
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.
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
