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Uncommon card · Nature
Human impact on the environment, an Uncommon card
Human impact on the environment refers to changes to biophysical environments and to ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 93
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 186
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 186 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Human impact on the environment quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Human impact on the environment card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Overconsumption, ______, pollution, and deforestation are also contributing to this problem.
Answer
overexploitation. Overconsumption, overexploitation, pollution, and deforestation are also contributing to this problem. From the Human impact on the environment article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Megabat. Megabat 220,000 · Iguanodon 170,000 · Human impact on the environment 130,000 · 2024 Spanish floods 83,000 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.
- Modifying the environment to fit the needs of society is causing severe effects including global warming, environmental degradation, mass extinction, and biodiversity loss, ecological crisis, and ecological collapse.
- Some human activities that cause damage to the environment on a global scale include population growth, neoliberal economic policies, and rapid economic growth.
- Overconsumption, overexploitation, pollution, and deforestation are also contributing to this problem.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Human impact on the environment article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 93 and blocks with 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Human impact on the environment
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Human impact on the environment (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA image by Joshua Stevens (LANCE MODIS Rapid Response), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
