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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Cambridge C | 28 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill C | Carleton | 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 |
| 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 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Stanford C | 70 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester A | Carleton | 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 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCLA D | 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 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth | Harvard | 70 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Yale A | 70 | -5 |
| Hiru Senehedheera | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 70 | -5 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Cambridge B | 70 | -5 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 70 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford A | 71 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Northwestern B | 71 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame E | Georgetown B | 71 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | VCU A | 71 | 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 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Arizona State B | 72 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU A | OSU C | 83 | -5 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | BC B | 83 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD Vices and Virtues | USC | 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 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | UF B | 85 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 85 | -5 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago C | Notre Dame A | 86 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Bowdoin B | 86 | 10 |
| Andrew McKenzie | OSU D | Kenyon B | 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 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | Melbourne A | 88 | -5 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Louisville B | 88 | 10 |
| Ethan Enochian | Purdue C | Michigan D | 88 | -5 |
| Ella Keavy | Bristol B | Edinburgh A | 88 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington B | 88 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | George Mason B | 88 | 10 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts B | Yale B | 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 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 88 | -5 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 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 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Cambridge D | 92 | -5 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Notre Dame B | 92 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Alden Baker | St. Thomas | Macalester B | 101 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 101 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McGill A | 101 | 10 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Tusculum | 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 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | FIU | 109 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 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 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | MSU B | 119 | 10 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU C | WashU D | 119 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Berkeley F | 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 |
| 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 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Illinois A | 120 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Purdue C | 120 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | UTD B | 120 | 10 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge D | Durham A | 120 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Guelph 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 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester A | 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 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 120 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 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 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 120 | 10 |
| Alex Irvine | Sheffield C | Manchester A | 120 | 10 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | Manchester B | 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 |