Question

One student designed an experiment to demonstrate the formation of a geologic feature. The steps of the experiment are listed below.

Use glue to attach several pieces of rock on a paper plate.
Cover the rocks completely with sand.
Tilt the plate slightly and pour water on the rocks.
Observe the sand being carried away to the edge of the plate.
Which of these geologic features was created by the process demonstrated by the student's experiment?
the Big Island of Hawaii

the Grand Canyon

the Himalayan mountain range

the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Answer 1

@wolfe8 please help

Answer 2

What do you think? What has sand around the edges washed from the center?

Answer 3

1st one?

Answer 4

@wolfe8

Answer 5

Sorry I would have been more specific. So the phenomena is that you have rocks covered in sand and then the rain washes the sane away to the sides.So all you have left are rocks in the center.

Beaches on islands are formed when sand is carried by the sea and deposited on the shore.