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Uncommon card · Nature
Escarpment, an Uncommon card
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 43
- DEF
- 21
- Power
- 64
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 64 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
Escarpment quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Escarpment card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In this usage, an escarpment is a ridge that has a ______ slope on one side and a steep scarp on the other side.
Answer
gentle. In this usage, an escarpment is a ridge that has a gentle slope on one side and a steep scarp on the other side. From the Escarpment article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Brazilian Highlands. Brazilian Highlands 46 · Escarpment 43 · Carassius 40 · Eustrophopsis confinis 36 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Escarpment. Escarpment 110,000 · Brazil–France border 37,000 · Glycoside hydrolase family 68 140 · Aptenopedes sphenarioides 100 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.
- Similarity causes the term scarp to be incorrectly used interchangeably with escarpment, which refers to the margin between two landforms as opposed to scarp, which refers to a cliff or a steep slope.
- In this usage, an escarpment is a ridge that has a gentle slope on one side and a steep scarp on the other side.
- More loosely, the term scarp also describes a zone between a coastal lowland and a continental plateau that shows a marked, abrupt change in elevation caused by coastal erosion at the base of the plateau.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Escarpment article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 43 and blocks with 21: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Escarpment
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Escarpment in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Aptenopedes sphenarioidesCommon · Nature · ATK 37 DEF 28
- Areias, Areia BrancaCommon · Society · ATK 37 DEF 28
- Gabri CastleCommon · Arts · ATK 35 DEF 30
- Pathfinder BadgeUncommon · History · ATK 44 DEF 20
- Gilberto MoraUncommon · Society · ATK 64 DEF 0
- Plain textUncommon · Science · ATK 50 DEF 14
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Escarpment (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was Geof at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
