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Continental climate, an Uncommon card
Continental climates in the Köppen climate classification often have a significant annual variation in temperature.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 27
- Power
- 85
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 95,000
Power 85 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Continental climate quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Continental climate card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Continental climates occur mostly in the ______ Hemisphere due to the large landmasses found there.
Answer
Northern. Continental climates occur mostly in the Northern Hemisphere due to the large landmasses found there. From the Continental climate article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Continental climate. Continental climate 58 · Pityrodia loricata 49 · Spinaeschna tripunctata 45 · Mount Olds 42 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Continental climate. Continental climate 95,000 · Harbor 57,000 · AK-176 30,000 · Spinaeschna tripunctata 210 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.
- They tend to occur in central and eastern parts of the three northern-tier continents, typically in the middle latitudes, often within large landmasses, where prevailing winds blow overland bringing some precipitation, and temperatures are not moderated by oceans.
- Continental climates occur mostly in the Northern Hemisphere due to the large landmasses found there.
- Most of northern and northeastern China, northern Mongolia, most of Korea, central Afghanistan, parts of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, eastern and southeastern Europe, much of the Russian Federation south of the Arctic Circle, central and southeastern Canada, and the north-central and northeastern United States have this type of climate.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Continental climate article was read about 95,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 27: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Continental climate
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Continental climate (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Beck, H.E., McVicar, T.R., Vergopolan, N., Alexis, B., Lutsko, N.J., Dufour, A., Zeng, Z.,, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
