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Drainage basin, an Uncommon card
A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 200,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Drainage basin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Drainage basin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A basin may consist of smaller basins that merge at river confluences, forming a ______ pattern.
Answer
hierarchical. A basin may consist of smaller basins that merge at river confluences, forming a hierarchical pattern. From the Drainage basin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of Central European forests. History of Central European forests 75 · List of crossings of the Hackensack River 71 · Drainage basin 67 · Hummingbird hawk-moth 63 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Hummingbird hawk-moth. Hummingbird hawk-moth 340,000 · Drainage basin 200,000 · History of Central European forests 6,900 · List of crossings of the Hackensack River 2,200 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.
- A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, the drainage divide, made up of a succession of elevated features, such as ridges and hills.
- A basin may consist of smaller basins that merge at river confluences, forming a hierarchical pattern.
- In North America, this is commonly called a watershed, though in other English-speaking places, "watershed" is used only in its original sense, that of the drainage divide line.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Drainage basin article was read about 200,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Drainage basin
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Drainage basin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Environmental Protection Agency, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
