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Gradualism is a pattern of evolution in which
A. a single species evolves into several closely related species.
B. several distantly related species develop similarities.
C. a species evolves at a slow, steady pace.
D. a species has periods of little evolution interrupted by periods of rapid evolution.
 
Mass extinction would most likely result from which of the following events?
A. A disease kills off a single species of predator within an ecosystem.
B. A wildfire burns a national park.
C. Global temperatures drop several degrees after several massive volcanic eruptions.
D. A massive earthquake strikes North America.

Sagot :

1.   C. a species evolves at a slow, steady pace. 

Gradualism, is the process by which a certain specie or creature undergo changes and variations in a limited and solely focusedly confined in long period of time.

2.      
A. A disease kills off a single species of predator within an ecosystem.


Mass extinction is a massive and global elimination in a certain specie or species. It doesn’t involve itself only in a secured and measurable area but it impacts the whole large-scale of population as a whole.