Which of the following does not cause extinction?

The correct answer is:

Short term environmental changes

• Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of organisms, usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point.

Causes of Extinctions

• habitat fragmentation.
• global changes.
• natural disasters.
• human overexploitation of species.
• genetic inbreeding.
• poor reproduction.
• decline in population numbers.

Now from the above options given We can say Short term environmental changes can bring massive death of organisms but not lead to extinction.