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History of paleontology, an Uncommon card
The history of paleontology traces the history of the effort to understand the history of life on Earth by studying the fossil record left behind by living organisms.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 28,000
Power 169 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
History of paleontology quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the History of paleontology card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ Chinese considered them to be dragon bones and documented them as such.
Answer
ancient. The ancient Chinese considered them to be dragon bones and documented them as such. From the History of paleontology article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
2009–10 Chilean general election. 2009–10 Chilean general election 90 · John Vanbrugh 83 · History of paleontology 80 · Svatopluk I of Moravia 75 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
John Vanbrugh. John Vanbrugh 38,000 · History of paleontology 28,000 · Svatopluk I of Moravia 19,000 · History of Warsaw 15,000 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.
- Since it is concerned with understanding living organisms of the past, paleontology can be considered to be a field of biology, but its historical development has been closely tied to geology and the effort to understand the history of Earth itself.
- In ancient times, Xenophanes, Herodotus, Eratosthenes, and Strabo wrote about fossils of marine organisms, indicating that land was once under water.
- The ancient Chinese considered them to be dragon bones and documented them as such.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The History of paleontology article was read about 28,000 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 History of paleontology
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, History of paleontology (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Henry De la Beche (10 February 1796 – 13 April 1855), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
