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Mass extinction is an event in which a large number of species go extinct over a short period caused by major events. Background extinction is the rate of extinction going down over time that are not caused by major events. ... The competitive displacement is what causes the extinction.

The difference between mass extinction and background extinction is described as :

Background extinction has a tendency to be sluggish and slow however not an unusual place with a small percent of species at any given time fading into extinction throughout Earth's history. Mass extinction includes the demise of 75% or greater species in a geologically brief time period because of catastrophic events.

What are the types of  Five Extinctions?

  1. Ordovician-Silurian Extinction: 440 million years ago.
  2. Devonian Extinction: 365 million years ago.
  3. Permian-Triassic Extinction: 250 million years ago.
  4. Triassic-Jurassic Extinction: 210 million years ago.
  5. Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction: sixty-five Million Years Ago.

Thus it is clear that mass extinction differs from background extinction.

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