Q: What term is used to describe large numbers of species that go extinct in a short amount of time?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Sometimes large numbers of species go extinct in a short amount of time. This is a mass extinction . The causes of different mass extinctions are different: collisions with comets or asteroids, massive volcanic eruptions, or rapidly changing climate are all possible causes of some of these disasters ( Figure below ).

 Choices:

- formation extinction

- organic extinction

- species extinction

- mass extinction


A:
mass extinction