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Uncommon card · Nature
Stress, an Uncommon card
Stress, whether physiological, biological or psychological, is an organism's response to a stressor, such as an environmental condition or change in life circumstances.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 77,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Stress quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Stress card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Two well-known hormones that humans produce during stressful ______ are adrenaline and cortisol.
Answer
situations. Two well-known hormones that humans produce during stressful situations are adrenaline and cortisol. From the Stress article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Tunnel. Tunnel 86 · Brown algae 80 · Stress 76 · Antarctic ice sheet 72 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Apennine Mountains. Apennine Mountains 140,000 · Stress 77,000 · Abelisauridae 60,000 · Choristodera 40,000 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.
- When stressed by stimuli that alter an organism's environment, multiple systems respond across the body.
- In humans and most mammals, the autonomic nervous system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis are the two major systems that respond to stress.
- Two well-known hormones that humans produce during stressful situations are adrenaline and cortisol.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Stress article was read about 77,000 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 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Stress
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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The cards just above and just below Stress in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- TunnelUncommon · Society · ATK 86 DEF 72
- Saadi ShiraziUncommon · Arts · ATK 75 DEF 83
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Stress (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Zandalinas, Sara I., Fritschi, Felix B., Mittler, Ron (2021), CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
