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Epic card · Nature
Dust Bowl, an Epic card
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the agriculture and ecology of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 156
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 600,000
Ranked #1,836 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Dust Bowl quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dust Bowl card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It exacerbated an ______ existing agricultural recession.
Answer
already. It exacerbated an already existing agricultural recession. From the Dust Bowl article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the agriculture and ecology of the American and Canadian prairies during the ____s.
Answer
1930s. The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the agriculture and ecology of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. From the Dust Bowl article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Emma Navarro. Emma Navarro 83 · Dust Bowl 79 · Kaweah River 75 · Altostratus cloud 69 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 phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors, including severe drought, and human behavior, including the destruction of natural topsoil by settlers who did not use dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion.
- The drought came in three waves: 1934, 1936, and 1939–1940, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as long as eight years.
- It exacerbated an already existing agricultural recession.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dust Bowl article was read about 600,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Dust Bowl
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dust Bowl (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Arthur Rothstein, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
