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Rare card · Nature
Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a Rare card
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 290,000
Power 169 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ of plastic and floating trash originates from the Pacific Rim, including countries in Asia, North America, and South America.
Answer
collection. The collection of plastic and floating trash originates from the Pacific Rim, including countries in Asia, North America, and South America. From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Coca. Coca 84 · Great Pacific Garbage Patch 80 · Amoeba 77 · Aardvark 73 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.
- It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N.
- The collection of plastic and floating trash originates from the Pacific Rim, including countries in Asia, North America, and South America.
- Despite the common public perception of the patch existing as giant islands of floating garbage, its low density prevents detection by satellite imagery, or even by casual boaters or divers in the area.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch article was read about 290,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Great Pacific Garbage Patch (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : L. Lebreton, B. Slat, F. Ferrari, B. Sainte-Rose, J. Aitken, R. Marthouse, S. Hajbane, S. , CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
