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Uncommon card · Science
Continental margin, an Uncommon card
A continental margin is the outer edge of continental crust abutting oceanic crust under coastal waters.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 52
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 106
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 106 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Continental margin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Continental margin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Continental margins constitute about 28% of the ______ area.
Answer
oceanic. Continental margins constitute about 28% of the oceanic area. From the Continental margin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Samuel von Pufendorf. Samuel von Pufendorf 66 · Franz Joseph Gall 63 · Intermetallic 60 · Continental margin 52 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.
- The continental margin consists of three different features: the continental rise, the continental slope, and the continental shelf.
- It is one of the three major zones of the ocean floor, the other two being deep-ocean basins and mid-ocean ridges.
- Continental margins constitute about 28% of the oceanic area.
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 margin 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 52 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Continental margin
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Continental margin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Original: Interiot Vector: Pduive23, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
