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It stood for 2 seconds. It wasn't very sturdy, that's why it didn't last long. Lily and I built a paper tower, and we predicted that our tower would be 28 centimeters long. First we rolled both of the pieces of the paper together. Then we made the base of the bottom one at, so that it would stand up. We put the other news paper inside of the rst news paper, and stood it up. It was 50 centimeters tall.!

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For our second tower we predicted it would 80 centimeters tall. Our second tower design was based off of our rst tower. Our second tower stayed up for 1 minute. We used our 20 centimeters of tape inside of the bottom news paper. Our tower ended up being 100 cm tall. The tape kept it together, so that it didn't collapse. Our second tower stayed up for 2 minutes. We changed the sizes on the cylinders so that they were larger. !

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Our building survived the rst wind speed. With the second wind speed, our building started moving vertically. During the third wind speed, our building moved vertically and moved a meter off of its foundation. This building measured 50 cm ( base ) 20 cm ( height ). This building is half the height of our second building. We built it lower so it would be more stable against the wind. When we applied earthquake forces to our building it survived for 20 seconds. !

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I claim that people have to make a different kind of structure to survive different kinds of events. What helped the taller buildings stand up was because of the bigger base. The tall buildings didn't survive the wind or earthquake because they weren't strong enough structures. The buildings that were close to the ground had a better chance because it's more stable. For example, if you had a rock and a stick the stick is going to fall over easier, because it's not as stable to the ground as the rock. In conclusion, different events cause structures to react.