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What is the primary way that volcanoes and 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 is the effect of mass extinction?

The effect of mass extinction is extinction, death of a mass


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 are 3 reasons for mass extinction?

Mass extinction could occur due to climate change, an asteroid impact and even a volcanic eruption.


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


Name four possible causes of mass extinction.?

Super volcanoes. A super volcano could emit so much smoke and ashes into the atmosphere, that an ice age could occur because of the limited sun light. This cloud of ashes could cover vast areas of the earth and could take a long time to dissolve. A comet. A comet could cause similar effects as super volcanoes. A third possible cause of mass extinction is when the ice-age ended and there were massive floods. This also caused extreme climate change. The snowball effect. Where the earth freezes and kills almost all life on earth.


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.


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.