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Atmospheric electricity, an Uncommon card
Atmospheric electricity describes the electrical charges in the Earth's atmosphere.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 126
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 22,000
Power 126 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Atmospheric electricity quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Atmospheric electricity card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Thunderstorms act as a giant battery in the atmosphere, charging up the ______ to about 400,000 volts with respect to the surface.
Answer
electrosphere. Thunderstorms act as a giant battery in the atmosphere, charging up the electrosphere to about 400,000 volts with respect to the surface. From the Atmospheric electricity article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of Central European forests. History of Central European forests 75 · Atmospheric electricity 69 · Céligny 66 · Columbia Icefield 63 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Columbia Icefield. Columbia Icefield 30,000 · Atmospheric electricity 22,000 · Galeaspida 12,000 · Indian pied myna 8,700 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 movement of charge between the Earth's surface, the atmosphere, and the ionosphere is known as the global atmospheric electrical circuit.
- Atmospheric electricity is an interdisciplinary topic with a long history, involving concepts from electrostatics, atmospheric physics, meteorology and Earth science.
- Thunderstorms act as a giant battery in the atmosphere, charging up the electrosphere to about 400,000 volts with respect to the surface.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Atmospheric electricity article was read about 22,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Atmospheric electricity
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Atmospheric electricity (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Maxime Raynal from France, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
