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    The rock wall would be the best to protect the beach from erosion, because the rocks can absorb the power of the waves. A curved sea wall would help prevent erosion well too, but it would lose less of that beach"feeling. Which structures, if any, cause the beaches to be completely erosionproof and how did you know?

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    The rock wall would be the best to protect the beach from erosion, because the rocks can absorb the power of the waves. A curved sea wall would help prevent erosion well too, but it would lose less of that beach"feeling. Which structures, if any, cause the beaches to be completely erosionproof and how did you know?

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    Beacherosionlab

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    The rock wall would be the best to protect the beach from erosion, because the rocks can absorb the power of the waves. A curved sea wall would help prevent erosion well too, but it would lose less of that beach"feeling. Which structures, if any, cause the beaches to be completely erosionproof and how did you know?

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    Name:KianaAlo:

    Period:4

    CreatinganErosionProofBeachLab

    Question:HowcanwecreatethemosterosionproofbeachinWaikikiinorderto
    protectourhistoricbeaches?

    Introduction

    Independent
    Variable
    (WhatIchange)
    Themethodto
    protectthebeach

    Dependent
    Variable(WhatI
    Observe)
    Howitaffectsthe
    beach

    ControlledVariables
    (WhatIKeeptheSame)

    Howcanwe
    sameamountof
    createthemost
    sand
    erosionproof
    sameamountof
    beachin
    water
    Waikikiinorder
    samecontainer
    toprotectour
    historic
    beaches?

    Purpose:
    Tolearnthebestwaytoprotectourbeachesfromerosion.

    Hypothesis:Ithinkthattherockwallwouldbethebesttoprotectthebeachfrom
    erosion,becausetherockscanabsorbthepowerofthewaves,butIthinkthata
    curvedseawallwouldhelppreventerosionwelltoo,butitwouldloselessofthat
    beachfeeling.

    MaterialsandMethods

    Materials:
    BeachSand
    Plastic/aluminumcontainers
    600mlwater
    Bottleforwaves
    Threestructuresyouaretesting

    Procedure:

    BeforeCreatingtheProcedure,thinkaboutthebasicsteps.Whatbasicstepswillyou
    needto:

    CreatetheBeach

    TesttheMethod,

    keepingeverything
    thesameexcept
    yourindependent
    variable
    CollecttheData

    1.

    Results

    (16points)

    Conclusion
    Incomplete,thoughtfulsentences,answerquestionsthefollowingquestions:
    1. Whichstructures,ifany,causethebeachestobecompletelyerosionproof
    andhowdidyouknow?

    Ithinkthatthecurvedwallwouldmakethebeachcompletelyerosionproof
    becauseitsacementwall,andnowhereinthewallcouldthesandpassthrougha
    cementwall,andthewaveswouldbeabletogothroughthewall,itwouldbe
    reversedorthewallwouldabsorbtheenergyofthewaves.

    2. Whichstructureworkedthebesttokeeperosionfromhappeningandhow
    didyouknow?Howisthissimilaranddifferenttoyourhypothesis?

    Theyweretherockwall,andIthinkthatthecurvedwallmethodwouldhave
    causedthebeachestobecompletelyerosionproofaswell,butourmodelbroke,and
    wasonlylongenoughtoprotectabouthavethebeach.Butbasedoffofourbeach
    modeltherockwallwasthebestwaytoprotectourbeachfromerosion.Iknewthis
    becausewhenwewouldbutnewwater,wecleanedtheotherhalfofthecontainer
    wherethewatergoes,anditwouldshowhowmuchsanderoded.

    3. Whatotherideasdoyouhavetocreateanerosionproofbeachthatyou
    didntgettotryinthisexperiment?

    Ithinkthebeachwallwouldhavebeenagreatwaytocreateanerosion
    proofbeach,andwouldhavekeptthatbeachfeeling.

    4. IfyouwerepersonwhowasgoingtotheHawaiiangovernmentto
    recommendhowtobestkeeperosionhappeningfromourWaikikibeaches,
    whatwouldyourecommendtothemandwhy?Assumethatthegovernment
    hasalreadydecidedthatamethodMUSTbeused.(Rememberthatyou
    wouldhavetousedatatohelpproveyourfindingstothem!)

    IwouldrecommendthebeachwallbecauselikeIsaidearlieritwouldbea
    greatwaytocreateanerosionproofbeach,andwouldhavekeptthatbeach
    feeling.

    5. Whatdidyoulikeaboutthislabandwhy?Whatwouldyouhavechanged
    aboutthislabandwhy?

    Ithoughtthatthelabwasafunwaytoexperimentwiththelab,butIwould
    havechangedthewaywemadeourmodelstoprotectthebeach.Theclaycontinued
    tobreak,andwhenwetriedtofixit,itwouldtaketolongtodry.

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