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 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Queen's B | 57 | -5 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 57 | -5 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri A | 57 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Rochester | 57 | 10 |
| Nico Pascual | MSU B | CWRU D | 58 | -5 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | MIT B | 60 | -5 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | George Washington A | 61 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 61 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Ohio | 66 | -5 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley B | UCSC | 66 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | McMaster A | 68 | 10 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | Liberty A | 68 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Maryland D | 70 | -5 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Maryland A | 70 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Johns Hopkins A | 70 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Amherst A | 70 | 10 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth | Harvard | 70 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Yale A | 70 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto I | 70 | 10 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF C | UF A | 70 | 10 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | NYU B | 70 | -5 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Columbia C | 70 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Vassar A | 70 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Truman State | 70 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Chicago A | 70 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | McGill D | 70 | -5 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Rose State | 70 | -5 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Southampton A | 70 | -5 |
| Hiru Senehedheera | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 70 | -5 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Stanford C | 70 | -5 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester A | Carleton | 70 | -5 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Cambridge B | 70 | -5 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 70 | 10 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 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 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford A | 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 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | Penn B | 72 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto F | 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 |
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Notre Dame C | 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 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU B | 77 | 10 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina B | Tennessee B | 77 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU B | 78 | -5 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | James Madison | 78 | -5 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | Virginia Tech B | 80 | -5 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | MIT A | 80 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UCF A | 80 | 10 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE A | Lancaster A | 80 | -5 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD Vices and Virtues | USC | 83 | -5 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | BC B | 83 | 10 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU A | OSU C | 83 | -5 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 83 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton B | Warwick A | 83 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | LSE B | 84 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 85 | -5 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | UF B | 85 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 88 | -5 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington B | 88 | -5 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 88 | 10 |
| Aaryan Sumesh | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 88 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | Melbourne A | 88 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | George Mason B | 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 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts B | Yale B | 88 | 10 |
| Ella Keavy | Bristol B | Edinburgh A | 88 | 10 |
| Siddhant Kumar | Edinburgh B | Bristol A | 88 | 10 |
| Vincent Chen | Pitt B | OSU A | 88 | -5 |
| Ethan Enochian | Purdue C | Michigan D | 88 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | RIT B | 88 | 10 |
| Yash Tiwari | Minnesota A | Wisconsin | 89 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Cambridge D | 92 | -5 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | Pitt C | 92 | -5 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Notre Dame B | 92 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | Warwick B | 94 | -5 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Purdue A | 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 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 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 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | George Mason C | 106 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 106 | -5 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Durham B | 106 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | WashU C | 107 | -5 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 109 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | FIU | 109 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame D | 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 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | George Mason A | 119 | 10 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU C | WashU D | 119 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Berkeley F | 119 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | MSU B | 119 | 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 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | South Carolina 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 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 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 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Notre Dame 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 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Williams | 120 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Alberta B | 120 | 10 |
| Ayden Gates | Rose State | Texas A | 120 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | UTD B | 120 | 10 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge D | Durham A | 120 | 10 |
| Zhangir Satzhanov | Birmingham A | City St George's A | 120 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | LSE A | 120 | 10 |
| Alex Irvine | Sheffield C | Manchester A | 120 | 10 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | Manchester 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 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt B | 120 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Illinois A | 120 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Purdue C | 120 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester 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 |