Landscape Features: Shorelines

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presentation Movie: Story: Happisburgh

During a fun day at the beach, you decide to build a sand castle. It turns out to be a really great sand castle and you do not want anything to happen to it. Unfortunately, sand castles do not last forever—they are swept out to sea. The same forces that take your sand castles away are eroding the Happisburgh area in England. Watch this news clip from the BBC to learn more.

(For comparison purposes, in 2010 one British pound was worth only about $1.50 in U.S. funds.)

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