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Biomagnification, an Uncommon card
Biomagnification, also known as bioamplification or biological magnification, is the increase in concentration of a substance in the tissues of organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 104
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 39,000
Power 104 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Biomagnification quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Biomagnification card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ become increasingly concentrated in tissues or internal organs as they move up the chain.
Answer
substances. The substances become increasingly concentrated in tissues or internal organs as they move up the chain. From the Biomagnification article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Mercury Marine. Mercury Marine 64 · Biomagnification 60 · Plane 55 · Wynn Macau 49 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- Biological magnification often refers to the process whereby substances such as pesticides or heavy metals work their way into lakes, rivers and the ocean, and then move up the food chain in progressively greater concentrations as they are incorporated into the diet of aquatic organisms such as zooplankton, which in turn are eaten perhaps by fish, which then may be eaten by bigger fish, large…
- The substances become increasingly concentrated in tissues or internal organs as they move up the chain.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Biomagnification article was read about 39,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Biomagnification
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Biomagnification (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sballesteros15, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
