Advanced Placement Environmental Science (AP Environmental Science, APES, AP Enviro, AP Environmental, AP Environment, or AP Enviro Sci) is a course offered by the American College Board. AP Environmental Science is designed to provide students with scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies you need to understand the relationships abundant within the natural world, to identify and analyze environmental problems, to evaluate relative risks associated with these identified problems, and to examine alternative solutions for resolving and/or preventing similar problems facing the global environment
Topics covered in AP Environmental Science:
1 The Living World: Ecosystems 6-8% 2 The Living World: Biodiversity 6-8% 3 Populations 10–15% 4 Earth Systems and Resources 10–15% 5 Land and Water Use 10–15% 6 Energy Resources and Consumption 10-15% 7 Atmospheric Pollution 7-10% 8 Aquatic and Terrestrial Pollution 7-10% 9 Global Change 15-20%
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