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Uncommon card · Nature
Juan de Fuca plate, an Uncommon card
The Juan de Fuca plate or Juan de Fuca microplate is a small oceanic tectonic plate generated from the Juan de Fuca Ridge that is subducting beneath the northerly portion of the western side of the North American plate at the Cascadia subduction zone.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 97
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 37,000
Power 97 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Juan de Fuca plate quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Juan de Fuca plate card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is named after the ______ of the same name.
Answer
explorer. It is named after the explorer of the same name. From the Juan de Fuca plate article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Waray language. Waray language 65 · Juan de Fuca plate 59 · Guillemot 54 · Bulb 51 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Ectotherm. Ectotherm 82,000 · Guillemot 62,000 · Juan de Fuca plate 37,000 · Cape St. Vincent 28,000 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.
- It is named after the explorer of the same name.
- One of the smallest of Earth's tectonic plates, the Juan de Fuca microplate is a remnant part of the once-vast Farallon plate, which is now largely subducted underneath the North American plate.
- In plate tectonic reconstructions, the Juan de Fuca microplate is referred to as the Vancouver plate between the break-up of the Farallon plate c. 55–52 Ma and the activation of the San Andreas Fault c. 30 Ma.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Juan de Fuca plate article was read about 37,000 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 Juan de Fuca plate
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Juan de Fuca plate (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
