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WorksheetsMass Extinction 8th grade
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is mass extinction?
when dogs will go extinct
when different plants and animals go extinct because of natural disasters or human activity
having different animals all together in one place
when the world will end
How many types of Mass Extinction have there been so far?
3
1
9
5
What are the 5 different names of the extinctions that have already happened?
Ordovician, Devonian, Nucleal, Permian, Triassic-Jurassic, Cretaceous-Tertiary
Devonian, Ordovician, Permian, Triassic-Jurassic, Cretaceous-Tertiary
Nucleal, Ordovician, Triassic-Jurassic, Cretaceous-Tertiary, Permian
Permian, Nucleal, Triassic-Jurassic, Cretaceous-Tertiary, Ordovician
What happened during the Ordovician Mass Extinction?
Dinosaurs were killed by asteroids
Small marine organisms died out
Many tropical species went extinct
All plant organisms were wiped out
How many years ago did the Permian-triassic Extinction happen?
around 250 million years ago
around 365 million years ago
around 65 million years ago
6 years ago
What cause the Triassic-jurassic Extinction to happen?
Asteroids hit earth
Huge and widespread volcanic eruptions
The fish species grew which cause multiple land and marine species to die
Plastic in the ocean
What happened during the Devonian Extinction?
Small marine organisms died out
All plant life was wiped out in the pacific ocean
Many tropical marine species were wiped out because of plate tectonics and sea levels changing
The dinosaurs went extinct
What happened during the Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction?
the species of dodo birds went extinct
many small organisms died off
all marine life died
there was a die off of dinosaurs and other species
What species went extinct during the ice age?
lions
dodo birds
mammoths
ostrich
What cause the Devonian Extinction?
asteroid impacts
Deforestation
Marine life taking over
Mammoths eating everything
