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Heterothermy, a Common card
Heterothermy or heterothermia is a physiological term for animals that vary between self-regulating their body temperature, and allowing the surrounding environment to affect it.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 49
- DEF
- 23
- Power
- 72
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,900
Power 72 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 15 % of WikiCards cards.
Heterothermy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Heterothermy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In other words, they exhibit ______ of both poikilothermy and homeothermy.
Answer
characteristics. In other words, they exhibit characteristics of both poikilothermy and homeothermy. From the Heterothermy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Cobra. Cobra 150,000 · Swale 34,000 · Heterothermy 8,900 · Odontomyia argentata 150 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.
- In other words, they exhibit characteristics of both poikilothermy and homeothermy.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Heterothermy article was read about 8,900 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 23: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.
How to get Heterothermy
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 Heterothermy in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Marcelo GleiserCommon · Science · ATK 53 DEF 19
- Tour de NesleCommon · Arts · ATK 47 DEF 25
- Aleksandër MeksiCommon · History · ATK 54 DEF 18
- Igor PetrenkoCommon · Arts · ATK 52 DEF 20
- Takao DoiCommon · Science · ATK 48 DEF 24
- TreniotaCommon · History · ATK 43 DEF 29
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Heterothermy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Arno / Coen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
