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Deforestation and climate change, a Common card
Deforestation is a primary contributor to climate change, and climate change affects the health of forests.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 159 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Deforestation and climate change quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Deforestation and climate change card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Global models and national greenhouse gas ______ give similar results for deforestation emissions.
Answer
inventories. Global models and national greenhouse gas inventories give similar results for deforestation emissions. From the Deforestation and climate change article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Lawn. Lawn 84 · Human–wildlife conflict 75 · Xiongguanlong 72 · Deforestation and climate change 68 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Lawn. Lawn 58,000 · Human–wildlife conflict 29,000 · Chinese water dragon 22,000 · Deforestation and climate change 13,000 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.
- Land use change, especially in the form of deforestation, is the second largest source of carbon dioxide emissions from human activities, after the burning of fossil fuels.
- Greenhouse gases are emitted from deforestation during the burning of forest biomass and decomposition of remaining plant material and soil carbon.
- Global models and national greenhouse gas inventories give similar results for deforestation emissions.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Deforestation and climate change article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Deforestation and climate change
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Text : Wikipedia, Deforestation and climate change (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
