Beaty Biodiversity Museum Starter Deck

2012 – (See Cards | Deck Info | Download | Purchase)…

This deck includes a variety of organisms that are locally relevant to habitats in British Columbia, as well as species found in the museum’s exhibition space. The game consists of 30 different cards, encompassing a variety of organism and events.

Wildfire!

Event Card
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Event

Play: Place on top of any SPECIES card of Grassland or Forest TERRAIN

Effect: The species card beneath the Wildfire is  IMMEDIATELY discarded.

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Habitat Loss

Event Card
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Event

Play: Place this card on any SPECIES card and change it’s habitat to URBAN permanently

Effect: This SPECIES card must be IMMEDIATELY removed.  You may leave this card on the table to show this place is now URBAN terrain.

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Human

Homo sapiens
Scale 8 Diat: omnivore , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia

2 POINTS

Play: Homo sapiens has a MOVE of 2. Although an omnivore, this card can only be played next to a SPECIES CARD that represents food that humans would actually eat.

Homo Sapiens may be played on any terrain

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Humans (known taxonomically as Homo sapiens,[3][4] Latin for “wise man” or “knowing man”)[5] are the only living species in the Homo genus. Anatomically modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago, reaching full behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago.[6] Humans have a highly developed brain and are capable of abstract reasoning, language, introspection, and […] read more

Mosquito

Culicinae subfamily
Scale 4 Diat: omnivore , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta

1 POINT

Play: Culicinae has a MOVE of 2 and may be played next to land-based mammalia SPECIES cards.

Fact: Many species of mosquitoes are not bloodsuckers.

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Mosquito A female mosquito Culiseta longiareolata Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera Suborder: Nematocera Infraorder: Culicomorpha Superfamily: Culicoidea Family: Culicidae Meigen, 1830 [1] Subfamilies Anophelinae Culicinae Toxorhynchitinae Diversity 41 genera Mosquitoes are members of a family of nematocerid flies: the Culicidae (from the Latin culex, genitive culicis meaning “midge” or “gnat”).[3] The […] read more

Blue Whale

Balaenoptera musculus
Scale 9 Diat: carnivore , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia

8 POINTS

Play: Balaenoptera musculus has a MOVE of  2 and requires a KRILL card for diet.

Fact: Balaenoptera musculus usually live alone or with one other individual.

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Blue whale[1] Adult blue whale from the eastern Pacific Ocean Size compared to an average human Conservation status Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[2] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Cetacea Suborder: Mysticeti Family: Balaenopteridae Genus: Balaenoptera Species: B. musculus Binomial name Balaenoptera musculus The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to […] read more

Climate Change

Event Card
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Event

Play/Effect: Place this card on top of any SPECIES card to immediately remove. In the same action, the EVENT card then moves to an adjacent SPECIES card. A game of rock-paper-scissors determines whether this card is also discarded. Continue moving the EVENT card and removing SPECIES cards until you lose. Card can only be played once per game.

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Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme […] read more