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Earth's energy budget, an Uncommon card
Earth's energy budget is the balance between the energy that Earth receives from the Sun and the energy the Earth loses back into outer space.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 168
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 34,000
Power 168 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Earth's energy budget quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Earth's energy budget card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The Sun heats the ______ tropics more than the polar regions.
Answer
equatorial. The Sun heats the equatorial tropics more than the polar regions. From the Earth's energy budget article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Chinese art. Chinese art 90 · Emergency management 85 · Yulimar Rojas 82 · Earth's energy budget 79 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Pandeism. Pandeism 57,000 · Emergency management 44,000 · Earth's energy budget 34,000 · History of wind power 26,000 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.
- Smaller energy sources, such as Earth's internal heat, are taken into consideration, but make a tiny contribution compared to solar energy.
- The energy budget also takes into account how energy moves through the climate system.
- The Sun heats the equatorial tropics more than the polar regions.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Earth's energy budget article was read about 34,000 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 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Earth's energy budget
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Earth's energy budget (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Kevin E Trenberth, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
