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Uncommon card · Science
Monoculture, an Uncommon card
In agriculture, monoculture is the practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 163
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 39,000
Power 163 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Monoculture quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Monoculture card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Crop diversity can be added both in time, as with a crop rotation or sequence, or in space, with a ______ or intercropping.
Answer
polyculture. Crop diversity can be added both in time, as with a crop rotation or sequence, or in space, with a polyculture or intercropping. From the Monoculture article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Externality. Externality 83 · 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak 80 · Monoculture 77 · David Unaipon 71 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak. 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak 55,000 · Monoculture 39,000 · Government spending 26,000 · Lalji Singh 12,000 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.
- Monocultures increase ease and efficiency in planting, managing, and harvesting crops short-term, often with the help of machinery.
- However, monocultures are more susceptible to diseases or pest outbreaks long-term due to localized reductions in biodiversity and nutrient depletion.
- Crop diversity can be added both in time, as with a crop rotation or sequence, or in space, with a polyculture or intercropping.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Monoculture article was read about 39,000 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 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Monoculture
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, Monoculture (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NightThree, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
