Although extinction is a natural process and is ongoing, it is likely we are in a time of ____, an event in which many

different kinds of organisms become extinct in a relatively short period.



a. mass extinction
b. genetic mutation
c. geologic catastrophe
d. loss of megafauna
e. birth of new species


ANSWER: a

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