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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Columbia C | 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 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF C | UF A | 70 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Chicago A | 70 | -5 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth | Harvard | 70 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Yale A | 70 | -5 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Cambridge B | 70 | -5 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 70 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Stanford C | 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 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester A | Carleton | 70 | -5 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Amherst A | 70 | 10 |
| Hiru Senehedheera | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 70 | -5 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford A | 71 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA C | 71 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Northwestern B | 71 | 10 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 71 | 10 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina C | Roanoke | 71 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | North Carolina A | 71 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame E | Georgetown B | 71 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | VCU A | 71 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE A | Lancaster A | 80 | -5 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | MIT A | 80 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UCF A | 80 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD Vices and Virtues | USC | 83 | -5 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU A | OSU C | 83 | -5 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton B | Warwick A | 83 | -5 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | BC B | 83 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Andrew McKenzie | OSU D | Kenyon B | 86 | 10 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago C | Notre Dame A | 86 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC 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 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington B | 88 | -5 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 88 | -5 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 88 | -5 |
| Ella Keavy | Bristol B | Edinburgh A | 88 | 10 |
| Siddhant Kumar | Edinburgh B | Bristol A | 88 | 10 |
| Vincent Chen | Pitt B | OSU A | 88 | -5 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 88 | -5 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Louisville B | 88 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 88 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | Melbourne A | 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 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | RIT B | 88 | 10 |
| Yash Tiwari | Minnesota A | Wisconsin | 89 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Cambridge D | 92 | -5 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Notre Dame B | 92 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | Pitt C | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 109 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame D | 109 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | FIU | 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 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 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 |
| 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 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Columbia B | 120 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Princeton A | 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 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt B | 120 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | South Carolina A | 120 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Chicago B | 120 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester A | 120 | 10 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Williams | 120 | 10 |
| Alex Irvine | Sheffield C | Manchester A | 120 | 10 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | Manchester B | 120 | 10 |