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Agricultural pollution, a Common card
Agricultural pollution problem refers to biotic and abiotic byproducts of farming practices that result in contamination or degradation of the environment and surrounding ecosystems, and/or cause injury to humans and their economic interests.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 162
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Ranked #1,705 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Agricultural pollution quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Agricultural pollution card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Management practices, or ignorance of them, play a ______ role in the amount and impact of these pollutants.
Answer
crucial. Management practices, or ignorance of them, play a crucial role in the amount and impact of these pollutants. From the Agricultural pollution article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Exam. Exam 81 · Agricultural pollution 77 · Box lacrosse 74 · THAP3 71 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Whiskers. Whiskers 69,000 · Exam 53,000 · Agricultural pollution 15,000 · Asteroids in fiction 6,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The pollution may come from a variety of sources, ranging from point source water pollution to more diffuse, landscape-level causes, also known as non-point source pollution and air pollution.
- Once in the environment these pollutants can have both direct effects in surrounding ecosystems, e.g. killing local wildlife or contaminating drinking water, and downstream effects such as dead zones caused by agricultural runoff is concentrated in large water bodies.
- Management practices, or ignorance of them, play a crucial role in the amount and impact of these pollutants.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Agricultural pollution article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Agricultural pollution
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Agricultural pollution (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Alan Liefting, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
