Question
This crop can bleach and harden from "ice-ice" disease and was once widely burned to harvest soda ash. Anna Atkins' first book of cyanotype photograms was of this crop. FutureFeed makes bromoform-heavy pellets from this crop that greatly reduce methane emissions from cows. Research on a form of this crop known as kombu led to the coinage of the term (*) umami. Ice cream is often thickened using carrageenans extracted from this crop. Other forms of this crop include the sheet-like nori. This crop is farmed vertically on longlines in the fastest-growing sector of aquaculture and can also be harvested from namesake forests. For 10 points, name these marine plants whose edible type can be dried to wrap sushi rolls. ■END■
ANSWER: seaweed [or kelp; or macroalgae; or laver; or sea moss; or Irish moss; or brown algae; accept ognori until "nori" is read; prompt on algae or red algae or green algae or chlorophytes; reject "seagrass" or "moss"]
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Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 100% | 19% | 0% | 82.74 |