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 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Rochester | 57 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 57 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Maryland D | 70 | -5 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | NYU B | 70 | -5 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Amherst A | 70 | 10 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth | Harvard | 70 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Yale A | 70 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | McGill D | 70 | -5 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Rose State | 70 | -5 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Stanford C | 70 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester A | Carleton | 70 | -5 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Southampton A | 70 | -5 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Cambridge B | 70 | -5 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCLA D | 70 | 10 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF C | UF A | 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 |
| Hiru Senehedheera | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 70 | -5 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 70 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 71 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA C | 71 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto F | 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 |
| 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 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina B | Tennessee B | 77 | 10 |
| Yanis Vencatachellum | ERAU B | UF D | 77 | -5 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU B | 77 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | James Madison | 78 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU B | 78 | -5 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | Virginia Tech B | 80 | -5 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | MIT A | 80 | -5 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE A | Lancaster A | 80 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UCF A | 80 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | BC B | 83 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton B | Warwick A | 83 | -5 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD Vices and Virtues | USC | 83 | -5 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU A | OSU C | 83 | -5 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 83 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | LSE B | 84 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 85 | -5 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | UF B | 85 | 10 |
| Andrew McKenzie | OSU D | Kenyon B | 86 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Bowdoin B | 86 | 10 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago C | Notre Dame A | 86 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 86 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 87 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Minnesota B | 87 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | UIC | 87 | 10 |
| Aaryan Sumesh | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 88 | 10 |
| Vincent Chen | Pitt B | OSU A | 88 | -5 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington B | 88 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | George Mason B | 88 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 88 | 10 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts B | Yale B | 88 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Ethan Enochian | Purdue C | Michigan D | 88 | -5 |
| Siddhant Kumar | Edinburgh B | Bristol A | 88 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | RIT B | 88 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | Melbourne A | 88 | -5 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Louisville 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 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 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 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | George Mason C | 106 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 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 |
| Nick Fowler | Virginia B | Liberty C | 115 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | OSU C | CWRU A | 115 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Michigan B | 117 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | George Mason A | 119 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Berkeley F | 119 | 10 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU C | WashU D | 119 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | MSU B | 119 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Guelph A | 120 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 120 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt 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 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 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 |
| 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 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Illinois A | 120 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Purdue C | 120 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester A | 120 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | UTD B | 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 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 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 |
| 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 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 120 | 10 |