5. Coasts: Managing Erosion and Flooding - Geography CIE IGCSE

What is this? Is it an example of hard or soft engineering?

• sea wall

• revetement

• rip-rap

• hard engineering

• soft engineering

What is this? Is it an example of hard or soft engineering?

• Sea wall

• revetement

• Managed retreat

• Hard engineering

• soft engineering

What is this? Is it an example of hard or soft engineering?

• Planting marram grass

• costal realignment

• hard engineering

• rock armour/rip rap

• soft engineering

What is this? Is it an example of hard or soft engineering?

• Soft engineering

• Gabions

• Groynes

• Sea wall

• Hard engineering

What is this? Is it an example of hard or soft engineering?

• breakwater

• soft engineering

• hard engineering

• revetement

• groynes

What is this? Is it an example of hard or soft engineering?

• breakwater

• hard engineering

• soft engineering

• gabions

• sea wall

What is this? Is it an example of hard or soft engineering?

• Beach replenishment

• planting marram grass

• soft engineering

• managed retreat

• hard engineering

What is this? Is it an example of hard or soft engineering?

• rip rap

• planting marram grass

• costal realignment

• soft engineering

• hard engineering

What is this? Is it an example of hard or soft engineering?

• Managed retreat/coastal realignment

• revetement

• beach replenishment

• soft engineering

• hard engineering

give advantages of hard engineering

• effective

• works with nature

• long-lasting

• Generally fixes problem very well

• cheap