ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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endangered
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threatened
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extinct
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troubled
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Detailed explanation-1: -If a species of animals is extinct, it no longer has any living members.
Detailed explanation-2: -An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. The word was coined in correspondence in the scientific journal Nature.
Detailed explanation-3: -A species of animal or plant that is extinct no longer has any living members, either in the world or in a particular place.
Detailed explanation-4: -The correct option is C extinct. Species that have disappeared from the Earth due to a variety of causes are known as extinct species.
Detailed explanation-5: -Extinct refers to species no longer in existence, having no living representatives – gone everywhere. Things like the brontosaurus, which no longer occurred as of 10’s of millions years ago, the wooly mammoth 10-thousand years ago, or the passenger pigeon only 10 decades ago. Extant describes species that DO exist.