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 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Queen's B | 57 | -5 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Rochester | 57 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Stanford C | 70 | -5 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCLA D | 70 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | Toronto D | 70 | -5 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | McGill B | 70 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto I | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hiru Senehedheera | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 70 | -5 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 70 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford A | 71 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA C | 71 | 10 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina C | Roanoke | 71 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | North Carolina A | 71 | 10 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 71 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame E | Georgetown B | 71 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | VCU A | 71 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Northwestern B | 71 | 10 |
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Notre Dame C | 72 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto F | 72 | 10 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | Penn B | 72 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Swarthmore A | 72 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Arizona State 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 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | MIT A | 80 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UCF A | 80 | 10 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE A | Lancaster A | 80 | -5 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | Virginia Tech B | 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 |
| Andrew McKenzie | OSU D | Kenyon B | 86 | 10 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago C | Notre Dame A | 86 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Bowdoin 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 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 88 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | Melbourne A | 88 | -5 |
| Vincent Chen | Pitt B | OSU A | 88 | -5 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 88 | -5 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 88 | -5 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 88 | -5 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Louisville 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 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | RIT B | 88 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington B | 88 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | George Mason B | 88 | 10 |
| Ella Keavy | Bristol B | Edinburgh A | 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 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | Warwick B | 94 | -5 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | Syracuse | 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 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McGill A | 101 | 10 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Tusculum | 101 | 10 |
| Alden Baker | St. Thomas | Macalester B | 101 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 101 | 10 |
| Spencer Thomas | Yale A | Tufts A | 103 | 10 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | McMaster B | 104 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 106 | -5 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 106 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame D | 109 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | FIU | 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 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | MSU B | 119 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Berkeley F | 119 | 10 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU C | WashU D | 119 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | George Mason A | 119 | 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 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | Pitt A | 120 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | Kenyon A | 120 | 10 |
| August Szpak | CWRU C | MSU A | 120 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester A | 120 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 120 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 120 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Guelph A | 120 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 120 | 10 |
| Noah Trochessett | UF D | ERAU B | 120 | 10 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | UCF B | 120 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt B | 120 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | South Carolina A | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | UTD 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 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 120 | 10 |