About 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid struck Earth, creating a crater 180 kilometers in diameter and 20 kilometers deep. This catastrophic event occurred in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, and the resulting crater is known as the Chicxulub Crater. Impact of the Asteroid on Earth Initial Explosion: The impact released energy equivalent to billions of nuclear bombs, leading to widespread fires and massive earthquakes. Dust and Smoke: Enormous amounts of dust and smo

SOLVED: An asteroid struck the Gulf of Mexico near what is now theYucatan Peninsula about 65 million years ago. Which of thefollowing interaction could have destroyed mostplants? extinction of the wooly mammoth extinction of the dinosaurs extinction of many species of mammals speciation on a grand scale by the organisms that survived

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