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Last Glacial Period, a Rare card
The Last Glacial Period, also known as the last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, from around 115,000–11,700 years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 250,000
Power 159 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Last Glacial Period quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Last Glacial Period card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It thus formed the most ______ period of what is colloquially known as the "Ice Age".
Answer
recent. It thus formed the most recent period of what is colloquially known as the "Ice Age". From the Last Glacial Period article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Scientific Revolution. Scientific Revolution 89 · Jean Baudrillard 83 · Henry Louis Gates Jr. 80 · Last Glacial Period 77 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It thus formed the most recent period of what is colloquially known as the "Ice Age".
- The LGP is part of a larger sequence of glacial and interglacial periods known as the Quaternary glaciation which started around 2.58 million years ago and is ongoing.
- The glaciation and the current Quaternary Period both began with the formation of the Arctic ice cap.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Last Glacial Period article was read about 250,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Last Glacial Period (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ittiz, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
