名詞の「絶滅」は 'extinction' と言います。
動詞とともに使うときは 'to go extinct' か 'to become extinct' と言います。
例えば:「[恐竜](https://eikaiwa.dmm.com/uknow/questions/29821/)の絶滅が6千5百万年前にされます。」 'Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago.'
「[絶滅危惧種](https://eikaiwa.dmm.com/uknow/questions/9247/)」は 'endangered species' と言います。
Wipe out - This is when something has been destroyed whether an animal species or plant species and you cannot find evidence of that animal or plant anymore.
Example sentences.
"The broad-billed parrot has been wiped out by human activity."
"If humans are not careful more animal species will be wiped out in the coming years."
"Scientists fear that the rainforest will be wiped out."
Wipe out - 動植物の種が全滅することを表します。
例文:
"The broad-billed parrot has been wiped out by human activity."
(モーリシャスインコは、人間の活動によって絶滅しました)
"If humans are not careful more animal species will be wiped out in the coming years."
(人間が注意を払わなければ、この先、さらなる動物種が絶滅するだろう)
"Scientists fear that the rainforest will be wiped out."
(科学者は[熱帯雨林](https://eikaiwa.dmm.com/uknow/questions/39443/)が[消滅](https://eikaiwa.dmm.com/uknow/questions/59690/)すると危惧しています)
To drive a species to extinction' means to drastically reduce the numbers of the species, for some reason, to a level where the species may be wiped out - for example by over-hunting, destruction of the habitat or by global warming.
To drive a species to extinction'は、乱獲や生息地の破壊、地球温暖化などにより、数が激減し種が絶滅することを表します。
「絶滅」は英語では「extinction」あるいは「extinct」で表せます。
「extinction」は「絶滅」という意味の名詞です。
「extinct」は「extinction」の形容詞形で「絶滅した」という意味です。
【例】
Mammoths went extinct about 11,000 years ago.
→マンモスは約1万1千年前に絶滅しました。
Snow leopards are in danger of extinction.
→ユキヒョウは絶滅の危機にあります。
ご質問ありがとうございました。
A phrase/word you can use to describe an animal that no longer exists, you may use the following words:
"extinct animal" or "extinct".
You may use the above in a sentence in the following ways:
-There is an effort globally to protect certain animals from extinction.
-Dinosaurs are extinct animals. Paleontologists are especially interested in studying the bones of extinct animals.
絶滅した動物を表すときに使える語句です:
"extinct animal"(絶滅した動物)
"extinct"(絶滅の)
文中では以下のように使えるでしょう:
-There is an effort globally to protect certain animals from extinction.
(動物を絶滅から守る取り組みが地球規模であります。)
-Dinosaurs are extinct animals. Paleontologists are especially interested in studying the bones of extinct animals.
(恐竜は絶滅動物です。古生物学者は特に絶滅動物の骨を研究することに関心があります。)
Extinction is to reduce the number of something until in the end there is none left we refer to these as 'extinct'
There are many animal species that are extinct like dinosaurs and many birds
The sad exit of a species from our planet.
A type of animal ceasing to exist, all died off.
Animals become extinct for a few reasons but the blame largely falls on humans, our selfish behavior can have consequences like losing a species.
"Extinct" is the term used to describe an animal or species that use to roam/ be on earth but for some reason does not exist anymore. ex. "The Dodo bird has been extinct for a long period of time"
"Extinction"
this is term given to the state or the process of an animal or species becoming 'extinct'.
ex, "We, as a human race are driving many animals into extinction".
かつて地球に生息していたものの絶えてしまった動物や種は、"Extinct" という言葉で表します。
例えば:
"The Dodo bird has been extinct for a long period of time"
(ドードーははるか昔に絶滅しました)
"Extinction"
これは、'Extinct' した状態やそのプロセスを表します。
例えば:
"We, as a human race are driving many animals into extinction"
(人類は多くの動物を絶滅に追い込んでいる)