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Historical geology, a Common card
Historical geology or palaeogeology is a discipline that uses the principles and methods of geology to reconstruct the geological history of Earth.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 97
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,400
Power 97 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Historical geology quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Historical geology card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It also focuses on the ______ of life during different time periods in the geologic time scale.
Answer
evolution. It also focuses on the evolution of life during different time periods in the geologic time scale. From the Historical geology article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Lorne Park. Lorne Park 65 · Historical geology 59 · Cumacea 56 · Stephan Sinding 52 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.
- Historical geology examines the vastness of geologic time, measured in billions of years, and investigates changes in the Earth, gradual and sudden, over this deep time.
- It focuses on geological processes, such as plate tectonics, that have changed the Earth's surface and subsurface over time and the use of methods including stratigraphy, structural geology, paleontology, and sedimentology to tell the sequence of these events.
- It also focuses on the evolution of life during different time periods in the geologic time scale.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Historical geology article was read about 6,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Historical geology
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 Historical geology in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Serrano languageCommon · Society · ATK 59 DEF 38
- Stephan SindingCommon · Arts · ATK 52 DEF 45
- Frederick William BeecheyCommon · History · ATK 59 DEF 38
- Viktor MeyerCommon · Science · ATK 60 DEF 37
- DoliumCommon · History · ATK 63 DEF 34
- Katarzyna KobroCommon · Arts · ATK 55 DEF 42
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Historical geology (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : United States Geological Survey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
