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#Question id: 9202


Which of the following statements regarding extinction is accurate?

#9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. A large percentage of species are immune from extinction; however, rates of extinction may increase with continued human impacts.

  2. Extinctions occur only periodically, separated by long time spans with no extinctions.
  3. Extinction is occurring at a similar rate now as compared to historical fossil evidence.
  4. The small-population approach is inferior to the declining-population approach if the goal is to conserve the maximum number of species in a given region.