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Common card · Science
Homeothermy, a Common card
Homeothermy, homothermy, or homoiothermy is thermoregulation that maintains a stable internal body temperature regardless of external influence.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 21
- Power
- 76
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 76 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Homeothermy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Homeothermy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Homeothermy's opposite is ______.
Answer
poikilothermy. Homeothermy's opposite is poikilothermy. From the Homeothermy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Harlan Warde. Harlan Warde 59 · Homeothermy 55 · Deniz Burnham 50 · Citronellal 46 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.
- This internal body temperature is often, though not necessarily, higher than the immediate environment.
- Homeothermy is one of the 3 types of thermoregulation in warm-blooded animal species.
- Homeothermy's opposite is poikilothermy.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Homeothermy article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 21: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Homeothermy
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.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Homeothermy in the power ranking, all domains together.
- The Royal Book of OzUncommon · Arts · ATK 51 DEF 25
- Dougie LampkinCommon · Society · ATK 52 DEF 24
- Harlan WardeUncommon · Arts · ATK 59 DEF 17
- Judeo-MalayalamCommon · Society · ATK 57 DEF 19
- Voskhod programmeCommon · Science · ATK 49 DEF 27
- David HentschelCommon · Science · ATK 53 DEF 23
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Homeothermy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Arno / Coen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
