calcareous - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

Coccolithophores and foraminifera form biogenous material in a substance named for this adjective. For 10 points each:

[10h] Identify this adjective that names a type of “ooze” containing calcium carbonate. That ooze named with this adjective forms with relatively deeper carbonate compensation depths in comparison to a counterpart ooze.

ANSWER: calcareous

[10e] Calcareous organisms are increasingly vulnerable to dissolution due to this ongoing process, in which the pH of the Earth’s ocean is declining.

ANSWER: ocean acidification

[10m] This process can be accelerated when the proliferation of bacteria leads to the downfall of calcareous plankton. This process is also responsible for algal blooms.

ANSWER: eutrophication

<CT, Other Science - Earth Science>

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	12.50	88%	38%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	21.11	100%	100%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	14.29	86%	57%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%

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Michigan B	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Oberlin	0	10	10	20
girl 15 whale i mean they	UCSD	0	10	10	20
UCSB	Art of Premature Signaling	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	Caltech	0	10	10	20
UCLA A	Claremont B	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	0	10	10	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	10	10	20
Billy's Bastion	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	10	0	10
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Too much from you lately	0	10	10	20
BU	Belmont	0	10	10	20
Brandeis	Brown	0	10	0	10
Harvard	RIT	0	10	0	10
MIT	Lexington	0	10	10	20
CWRU	Rutgers	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
NYU B	George Mason B	0	10	0	10
George Washington	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	0	10
Haverford B	Georgetown	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	George Mason C	0	10	10	20
Catholic University of America	Maryland A	0	0	0	0
NYU A	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Arizona State University A	UW B	0	10	10	20
Arizona State University B	South Dakota School of Mines	0	10	0	10
UW A	Alberta	0	10	10	20
Washington Connections	Carleton	0	10	10	20
Pittsburgh	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
we need new names	Auburn 2026	0	10	10	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	0	10	10	20
Gruh	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	0	10	10	20
Free Agents 1	Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	0	10	10	20
2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	Goober Gang	0	10	10	20
Mahjonng Masters	Illinois Orange	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame + Epic Games	mongeese	0	10	10	20
Quatumvirate	MSJ	0	10	10	20
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	evil women enjoyers	0	10	10	20
Sheffield B	Sheffield C	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Manchester	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Warwick C	0	10	10	20
McGill A	Waterloo C	0	10	0	10
Ottawa A	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
Waterloo A	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Toronto B	0	10	10	20
Toronto D	McGill B	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Mac A	0	10	0	10
Guelph	UBC	0	10	10	20
Waterloo B	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	10	10	10	30
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	0	10	10	20
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Master and Margaritaville	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Truman State	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	WashU Bulbasaur	0	10	10	20
Illinois C	WashU Charmander	0	10	0	10
WashU Squirtle	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Birmingham	Cambridge	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Edinburgh	0	10	10	20
LSE	Sheffield	0	10	0	10
Lancaster	Imperial B	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A	Ohio State C	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Ohio State D	0	0	10	10