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Uncommon card · Science
Dam, an Uncommon card
A dam is a structure that impounds water or restricts its flow.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 94
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 194
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Power 194 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Dam quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dam card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Dams provide for irrigation, hydropower, water supply, flood management, ______, inland navigation, and fish farming.
Answer
recreation. Dams provide for irrigation, hydropower, water supply, flood management, recreation, inland navigation, and fish farming. From the Dam article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Lyme disease. Lyme disease 1,000,000 · Alzheimer's disease 790,000 · Dam 190,000 · Metalloid 130,000 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.
- Dams are classified into four basic types: gravity dams are massive structures made of concrete or masonry that rely on their weight to resist the force of impounded water, embankment dams are large earthworks consisting of rocks, clay, sand, soil, or gravel, buttress dams consist of a sloped, concrete face supported on the downstream side by a series of triangular buttresses, and arch dams use a…
- Dams provide for irrigation, hydropower, water supply, flood management, recreation, inland navigation, and fish farming.
- Irrigation is a critical application of dams: about 20% of the world's arable land is irrigated using water from reservoirs impounded by dams.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dam article was read about 190,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 94 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Dam
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, Dam (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wiki Commons users Qurren at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Qurren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
