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Elevation, an Uncommon card
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 49
- DEF
- 27
- Power
- 76
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 77,000
Power 76 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Elevation quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Elevation card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Elevation is not to be confused with the ______ from the center of the Earth.
Answer
distance. Elevation is not to be confused with the distance from the center of the Earth. From the Elevation article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Eastern world. Eastern world 54 · Elevation 49 · Hans Heger 44 · Grattepanche 36 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Elevation. Elevation 77,000 · Eastern world 61,000 · Hahausen 47,000 · Grattepanche 220 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.
- The term elevation is mainly used when referring to points on the Earth's surface, while altitude or geopotential height is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight or a spacecraft in orbit, and depth is used for points below the surface.
- Elevation is not to be confused with the distance from the center of the Earth.
- Due to the equatorial bulge, the summits of Mount Everest and Chimborazo have, respectively, the largest elevation and the largest geocentric distance.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Elevation article was read about 77,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 49 and blocks with 27: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Elevation
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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The cards just above and just below Elevation in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Buzz cutUncommon · Arts · ATK 45 DEF 31
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- Franklin CoverUncommon · Arts · ATK 50 DEF 26
- Uttar Pradesh Gramin BankUncommon · Society · ATK 49 DEF 27
- Eastern worldUncommon · Society · ATK 54 DEF 22
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Elevation (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Vertical distances.png : Dr. Wessmann ( Wessmann.clp ) derivative work: Aron Rubin ( AronR, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
