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Uncommon card · Science
Circle of latitude, an Uncommon card
A circle of latitude or line of latitude on Earth is an abstract east–west small circle connecting all locations around Earth at a given latitude coordinate line.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 63,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Circle of latitude quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Circle of latitude card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A location's position along a circle of latitude is given by its ______.
Answer
longitude. A location's position along a circle of latitude is given by its longitude. From the Circle of latitude article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Organic compound. Organic compound 170,000 · Circle of latitude 63,000 · 3C 273 40,000 · Bell 430 32,000 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.
- Circles of latitude are often called parallels because they are parallel to each other, that is, planes that contain any of these circles never intersect each other.
- A location's position along a circle of latitude is given by its longitude.
- Circles of latitude are unlike circles of longitude, which are all great circles with the centre of Earth in the middle, as the circles of latitude get smaller as the distance from the Equator increases.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Circle of latitude article was read about 63,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Circle of latitude
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Circle of latitude (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thesevenseas ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
