mollisol - 2024 ARGOS - Buzzpoints App

Question

This soil type is split into chernozem, kastanozem, phaeozem, and umbrisol by the World Reference Base. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this dark and exceptionally fertile soil type that is defined by very high concentrations of organic matter in the A horizon, creating a surface layer known as this soil type’s namesake epipedon.

ANSWER: mollisol [accept mollic epipedon]

[10m] In North America, chernozem is found in the “aspen parkland” between the Canadian prairies and this soil type to its north. The leeching of iron and aluminum creates an E horizon bleached of color in this soil type, which is typically found in coniferous forests and taigas.

ANSWER: podzol [or spodosol; accept podzolic]

[10e] North of the Canadian taiga is the tundra, which is defined by this type of soil that is frozen year-round.

ANSWER: permafrost [accept gelisol]

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2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Import Pandas	Hu up Jinning they Tao	0	10	10
"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	Banned from ARGOS	0	10	10
BHSU Rebirth	Clown Senpais	0	10	10
WashU	Clown Squad	0	10	10
Music to Help You Stop Smoking	hawk two of	10	10	20
The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	Northeast by Northwestern	10	10	20
Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	Notre Dame	0	10	10
BHSU ReFantazio	That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	0	10	10
Cambridge	Defying Suavity	10	10	20
Cien Años de Quizboledad	Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	10	10	20
Limp Franceskit	Simple Vibes	0	10	10
Pahkin' the Ahgo	\|madam\|	0	10	10
just one more half-dot bro	12 Litres of Green Tea	10	10	20
Walston et. al.	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	0	10	10
jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	Cope is the thing with feathers	0	10	10
Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	0	10	10
She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	0	10	10
Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	0	10	10
The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	0	10	10
as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	10	10	20
A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	Berkeley	0	10	10
I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	10	10	20
Thompson et al.	UBC	10	10	20
throw away your cards, rally in the streets	Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	10	10	20
Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	Cry of the Common Loon	0	10	10
number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	Stanford+	0	10	10