• Environmental Science Practice Test

About This Product In ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, 15th Edition, Tyler Miller and Scott Spoolman give students the inspiration and knowledge they need to make a difference solving today's environmental issues. Content highlights work of National Geographic Explorers and Grantees, and features over 180 new photos, maps, and illustrations that bring course concepts to life. Using sustainability as their central theme, the authors emphasize natural capital, natural capital degradation, solutions, trade-offs, and the importance of individuals.

Students learn how nature works, how they interact with it, and how humanity has sustained - and can continue to sustain - its relationship with the earth by applying nature's lessons to economies and individual lifestyles.

Course Description The goal of the Advanced Placement Environmental Science course (AP Environmental Science, or APES) is to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, to identify and analyze environmental problems, both natural and human-made, to evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and to examine alternative solutions for resolving and/or preventing them. Environmental Science is interdisciplinary; it embraces a wide variety of topics from different areas of study (e.g. Biology, chemistry, earth science, geography), yet there are several major unifying themes that cut across the many topics included in the study of environmental science. AP Environmental Science has a significant laboratory and field investigation component. The goal of this component is to complement the classroom portion of the course by allowing students to learn about the environment through firsthand observations.

Environmental Science Practice Test

Experiences both in the laboratory and in the field provide students with important opportunities to test concepts and principles that are introduced in the classroom, to explore specific problems with a depth not easily achieved otherwise, and to gain an awareness of the importance of confounding variables that exist in the “real world.” Examples of investigations include: collecting and analyzing water and soil samples, conducting long term studies on a local ecosystem or environmental problem, analyzing real data sets, and visiting local public facilities such as a water-treatment plant. Contact Information/Extra help: Should a student or parent need to contact me for any reason I can be reached by phone @ 755-0125 ext. I also have voicemail available, so a message can be left 24 hours a day.

I generally reply to voicemail messages within a day or two. I can also be reached via school email (my email address is as follows: ) Also, I’m generally available for extra help during lunch in room 29. Essentially every day, I am available for help after school from 2:30 – 5:00. Other times for additional help may be arranged by the student, as long as, an appointment is scheduled with and agreed upon by the instructor. Like many undertakings in life, you will find that you will get out of this class whatever you put into it. I, as a teacher, cannot force you as a student to learn anything. Much or your success in this class will come from your own individual desire to learn, to understand the living world around you and how it works.

As the instructor, I will try to make biology interesting, understandable, engaging, and thought provoking, while focusing on the content standards of the class. Your job as a student is to follow the guidelines and rules I have outlined, as well as, do your best work and continue to develop your sense of wonder and life-long love of learning.

Web Resources Environmental History and general themes (we will use this prior to checking out 15th ed. Texts) Selected excerpts Muir, Carson, Leopold Resource utilization, sustainability, ecological footprint, resources from chapter 1 Miller 15th ed. 2 15th Resources -Scientific methodology, experimentation, chemistry review.