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Latitude, a Rare card
In geodesy and cartography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 148
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 220,000
Power 148 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Latitude quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Latitude card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Lines of ______ latitude, or parallels, run east-west as circles parallel to the equator.
Answer
constant. Lines of constant latitude, or parallels, run east-west as circles parallel to the equator. From the Latitude article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Derivative. Derivative 310,000 · Latitude 220,000 · Antlia 20,000 · Ground-level power supply 16,000 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.
- Latitude is given as an angle that ranges from −90° at the south pole to 90° at the north pole, with 0° at the Equator.
- Lines of constant latitude, or parallels, run east-west as circles parallel to the equator.
- Latitude and longitude are used together as a coordinate pair to specify a location on the surface of the Earth.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Latitude article was read about 220,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 72: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Latitude
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Latitude (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : source : Pearson Scott Foresman, donated to the Wikimedia Foundation svg conversion : Greg, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
