One model of this material that features a “critical state line” is called its “Modified Cam” model. An equation developed by Karl von Terzaghi computes this material’s “bearing capacity.” This material’s swelling potential increases with its plasticity index, which can be calculated from its Atterberg limits. Increases in pressure cause this prototypical three-phase material to contract during “consolidation.” Compaction of this material can cause a structure’s foundation to move during “settlement.” Applied stresses can cause excess pore water pressure to build in this material, causing its “liquefaction” during earthquakes. Based on its particle size distribution, this material can be classified into subtypes such as sand and clay. For 10 points, what organic material do plant roots typically anchor themselves in? ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 80.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 85.17 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 90.31 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 97.33 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 86% | 114.29 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 50% | 99.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 45% | 97.82 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 90.40 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 80.75 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 90.33 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 96.80 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 92.67 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 97.75 |
| UK | Main | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 57% | 102.07 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 83.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Sloan | McGill C | Carleton | 28 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Cambridge C | 28 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Indiana A | 36 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan C | 37 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 56 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | MSU A | CWRU C | 56 | -5 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 57 | -5 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri A | 57 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Queen's B | 57 | -5 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Rochester | 57 | 10 |
| Nico Pascual | MSU B | CWRU D | 58 | -5 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | MIT B | 60 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 61 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | George Washington A | 61 | -5 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley B | UCSC | 66 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Ohio | 66 | -5 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | McMaster A | 68 | 10 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | Liberty A | 68 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Stanford C | 70 | -5 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCLA D | 70 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | Toronto D | 70 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto I | 70 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Maryland D | 70 | -5 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | NYU B | 70 | -5 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Vassar A | 70 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Truman State | 70 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Amherst A | 70 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | McGill D | 70 | -5 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Rose State | 70 | -5 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Southampton A | 70 | -5 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Cambridge B | 70 | -5 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 70 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | McGill B | 70 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Maryland A | 70 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Johns Hopkins A | 70 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Columbia C | 70 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Chicago A | 70 | -5 |
| Hiru Senehedheera | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 70 | -5 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF C | UF A | 70 | 10 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester A | Carleton | 70 | -5 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth | Harvard | 70 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Yale A | 70 | -5 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford A | 71 | 10 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 71 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA C | 71 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame E | Georgetown B | 71 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | VCU A | 71 | 10 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina C | Roanoke | 71 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | North Carolina A | 71 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Northwestern B | 71 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto F | 72 | 10 |
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Notre Dame C | 72 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Arizona State A | 72 | 10 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | Penn B | 72 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Swarthmore A | 72 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Arizona State B | 72 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 73 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | Illinois C | 74 | -5 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Birmingham A | 75 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 76 | -5 |
| Yanis Vencatachellum | ERAU B | UF D | 77 | -5 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina B | Tennessee B | 77 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU B | 77 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU B | 78 | -5 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | James Madison | 78 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UCF A | 80 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | Virginia Tech B | 80 | -5 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE A | Lancaster A | 80 | -5 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | MIT A | 80 | -5 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD Vices and Virtues | USC | 83 | -5 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU A | OSU C | 83 | -5 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | BC B | 83 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton B | Warwick A | 83 | -5 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 83 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | LSE B | 84 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | UF B | 85 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 85 | -5 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 86 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Bowdoin B | 86 | 10 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago C | Notre Dame A | 86 | 10 |
| Andrew McKenzie | OSU D | Kenyon B | 86 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | UIC | 87 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 87 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Minnesota B | 87 | 10 |
| Aaryan Sumesh | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 88 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | Melbourne A | 88 | -5 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington B | 88 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | George Mason B | 88 | 10 |
| Ethan Enochian | Purdue C | Michigan D | 88 | -5 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts B | Yale B | 88 | 10 |
| Siddhant Kumar | Edinburgh B | Bristol A | 88 | 10 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 88 | -5 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 88 | -5 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Louisville B | 88 | 10 |
| Ella Keavy | Bristol B | Edinburgh A | 88 | 10 |
| Vincent Chen | Pitt B | OSU A | 88 | -5 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 88 | -5 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 88 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | RIT B | 88 | 10 |
| Yash Tiwari | Minnesota A | Wisconsin | 89 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | Pitt C | 92 | -5 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Notre Dame B | 92 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Cambridge D | 92 | -5 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Purdue A | 94 | -5 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | Syracuse | 94 | -5 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | Warwick B | 94 | -5 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Northwestern C | 96 | 10 |
| Neal Frankenberg | Brown A | Amherst B | 97 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto K | 99 | -5 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 101 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McGill A | 101 | 10 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Tusculum | 101 | 10 |
| Alden Baker | St. Thomas | Macalester B | 101 | 10 |
| Spencer Thomas | Yale A | Tufts A | 103 | 10 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | McMaster B | 104 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 106 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 106 | -5 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | George Mason C | 106 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Durham B | 106 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | WashU C | 107 | -5 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | FIU | 109 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame D | 109 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 109 | 10 |
| Dixie Lumsden | Roanoke | North Carolina C | 110 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Northwestern A | 111 | 10 |
| Joel Dicker | Southampton A | Imperial C | 112 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | OSU C | CWRU A | 115 | 10 |
| Nick Fowler | Virginia B | Liberty C | 115 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Michigan B | 117 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Berkeley F | 119 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | MSU B | 119 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | George Mason A | 119 | 10 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU C | WashU D | 119 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 120 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Guelph A | 120 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 120 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McMaster C | 120 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 120 | 10 |
| Noah Trochessett | UF D | ERAU B | 120 | 10 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | UCF B | 120 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | Pitt A | 120 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | Kenyon A | 120 | 10 |
| August Szpak | CWRU C | MSU A | 120 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Clemson B | 120 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | Catholic University | 120 | 10 |
| Eva Lettiere | George Washington A | UMBC A | 120 | 10 |
| Ryan Gameng | George Washington B | Johns Hopkins C | 120 | 10 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Notre Dame E | 120 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Illinois A | 120 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Purdue C | 120 | 10 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Williams | 120 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Alberta B | 120 | 10 |
| Ayden Gates | Rose State | Texas A | 120 | 10 |
| Zhangir Satzhanov | Birmingham A | City St George's A | 120 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | LSE A | 120 | 10 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge B | Sheffield B | 120 | 10 |
| Ella Warde | Warwick A | Southampton B | 120 | 10 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 120 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 120 | 10 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Columbia B | 120 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Princeton A | 120 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Chicago B | 120 | 10 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge D | Durham A | 120 | 10 |
| Alex Irvine | Sheffield C | Manchester A | 120 | 10 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | Manchester B | 120 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt B | 120 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | South Carolina A | 120 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester A | 120 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 120 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | UTD B | 120 | 10 |