Extinction
- Created by: Clare Parry
- Created on: 09-05-15 10:12
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- CAUSES OF EXTINCTION
- new competitors take all of a resource, e.g. food or territory
- new diseases kill all individuals
- new predators eat all individuals
- changes to environment over millions of years (geological time)
- organisms can't adapt fast enough to changes
- single catastrophic event
- e.g. asteroid collides with Earth
- e.g. massive volcanic eruption
- Extinction is when all individuals of a species die out
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