AP Environmental Science (Period Per 7) Assignments

1. Your test corrections
2. Your study guides
3. Chapter Powerpoints (Find them by scrolling through past test dates)
4. Review topic sheet attached below

• 2005 #3 Coal mine restoration Question #3  Scoring Guidelines (p10-14)  Sample Responses (p15-21)
  
• 2006 #4 Fishing  Questions #4   Scoring Guidelines (p14-17  Sample Responses Q4
  
• 2008 #3 Forests  Questions #3   Scoring Guidelines (p11-14)  Sample Responses Q3
  
• 2011 #2 Coral Reefs Questions #2  Scoring Guidelines (p5-7)  Sample Responses Q2
  
• 2015 #4Urban Sprawl Question #4  Scoring Guidelines (p11-13)  Sample Responses Q4
  

• Forestry (Understanding Forestry)
• Fisheries and Aquaculture

Read Ch10 GMO

Study Guide Ch 10  Read pages273-280 to answer questions 15-34

Continue Presentations

• Continue Spring Reports
• Ch 10 Reading and Study Guide
• Read pages 263-272 for questions 1-14 and  pages 280-289 for questions 35-47

• Begin Spring Report Presentations
• Answer questions 1-33 on the Chapter 9 study guide.

• FRQ’s
• 2000 #4 Age Structure Diagrams  Question   Scoring Guidelines p11-13  Sample Response Q4
• 2003 #2 Population Rates  Questions   Scoring Guidelines p5-8   Sample Response Q2
• 2008 #4 Population totals Questions   Scoring Guidelines p15-18   Sample Responses Q4

• Read Ch8 Human Populations
• Complete Ch8 study guide (4-25)

• Read the pages in Chapter 5 on Population Ecology (pp125-136)
• Answer study guide questions on Chapter 5 (1-15) and
• Read pp 207-213 in Chapter 8
• Answer study guide questions on Chapter 8 (1-3)
• Be prepared for quiz

• 1999 #3 Air Pollution graph  
  Questions  Scoring Guide 10-15    Sample Response Q3
• 2001 #3 air pollutants and effects, sick building syndrome 
  Questions Scoring Guide 10-19    Sample Response Q3
• 2007 #3 Destruction of stratospheric ozone 
  Questions Scoring Guide 7-8    Sample Responses Q3
• 2007 #4 Outdoor air pollution and temperature  
  Questions Scoring Guide 9-11    Sample Responses Q4
• 2013 #3 Ozone, Montreal Protocol 
  Questions Scoring Guide 8-10    Sample Responses Q3

Zero Waste Homework

Watch the following videos and answer the questions below

• Subaru Zero waste facility 7 min
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOGI5WnPLZk
  https://youtu.be/lfHHPQUdHN4www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOGI5WnPLZk
  
  
• DuPont Zero waste efforts 2:35
  
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4IOz7nGaTs
  
  
• National parks zero waste efforts 4:43
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9mL7_wbZ4

• Shocking Scale of Waste and the myth of recycling 5min
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTgTWLYCeOU
  
  
• Zero Waste Family 5:50
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epTPhU4Hg4U

• A town that is almost zero waste 5 min
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eym10GGidQU

1. List three things you learned about zero waste from these videos.
2. What do you think about (the content of) these video clips? (Make at least two comments)
3. Ask at least two questions you might ask the people in any of these videos?

Global Warming FRQ choices

Go to the following page and review the questions and scoring guides for the following FRQ’s

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/exam/exam_information/2003.html

2002 #4 El Nino Question Scoring Guide Sample Answers

2006 #2 Atmospheric CO2 Question Scoring Guide Sample Answers

2008 #1 Biofuels Question Scoring Guide Sample Answers

2009 #3 questions d and e Colorado River Question Scoring Guide Sample Answers

2010 #2 Termites, 2010 #4 Estuaries Question Scoring Guide Sample Answers

2011 #1 Pine Beetles Question Scoring Guide Sample Answers

2011 #2 Coral Reefs Question Scoring Guide Sample Answers

2013 #2 Electric Vehicles (Math) Question Scoring Guide Sample Answers

Question Scoring Guide Sample Answers

Also, you will find a review worksheet attached.  It is not required to be completed but many students find the review worksheets a useful study tool.

Possible FRQ Questions

FRQ 1999-4 Pesticide Controversy Question  Scoring Guide  Sample Answers

FRQ 2002-3 Copper Sulfate  Question  Scoring Guide   Sample Answers

FRQ 2004-1 Toxic Seafood Question    Scoring Guide   Sample Answers

Other possible FRQ Questions:

1. List 5 aspects that would make a toxicant more of a concern for human or environmental health.  Explain how it makes the toxicant more damaging.  Use examples
2. List 4 government agencies that assess and/or manage risk posed by toxicants.
3. Explain what type of hazards it manages.  Use examples.
4. List 4 laws that are used to control toxicants
5. Explain how they control the toxicants.  Give examples
6. Describe a benefit and a problem related to an “Innocent until proven guilty” approach to risk management.  Give an example of each.
7. Describe a benefit and a problem related to a “precautionary principle” approach to risk management.  Give an example of each.

8. Describe 3 ways a toxicant can move from its intended application to another place where it harms people or the environment.  Give an example of each and describe the harm.

and Everglades Water Quality

• 1999 #1 Pond Water    All Questions    Scoring Guidelines    Sample Response
• 2001 #4 Stream Quality  All Questions    Scoring Guidelines     Sample Response
• 2002 #2 Water Diversion    All Questions    Scoring Guidelines    Sample Response
• 2003 #3 Estuaries     Questions  Scoring Guidelines  Sample Response
• 2007 #1 Wastewater Treatment  Questions  Scoring Guidelines Sample  Responses
• 2015 #1 Climate Change and Everglades Water Quality   Questions    Scoring Guidelines   Sample Responses Q1
• 2012 #4 Wetlands     Questions   Scoring Guidelines    Sample Responses Q4

• Part 1. Read the Central Case: Plumbing the Colorado River.
  Write a paragraph that summarizes the cause of the conflicts over Colorado River water.
• Part 2. Read the section on Freshwater Systems (pp 413-418) and answer study guide questions 1-27.  Be sure to print out your study guide answers for this section and bring them to class with you.
  
• Turn in Field Trip Form for the Arroyo Field Trip. 
  

Policy And Regulation Report

You are to research an environmental law, treaty, or regulation.  Your assigned law, treaty or regulation is listed on the link below.

Use the Report Instructions linked below to find the questions you will answer.  Please answer the questions in a numbered format and NOT in a paragraph form.

You can see the regulation assigned to you at this link 

Google Doc Report Regulation

Google Doc Environmental Laws Complete Descriptions

Read Chapter 3 and Complete Study Guide

Read Chapter 3 and complete the study guide.  You do not have to define the terms but you should know them.  You can use the word document or the Google Doc Document

Read Chapter 2 and Complete Study Guide

Read the introduction to Chapter 2 on the Jabaluka Mine and write down 3 discussion-starting questions or opinions .

Read the chapter and complete the attached Chapter 2 Study Guide Questions.  Do not define the terms but you should know them.  Be sure to give examples when asked.

Note: Changes have been made from previous study guides and some students copy study guides from past students.  If you submit a copied study guide you will receive no credit.

Google Doc Ch 2 Study Guide

Read Chapter 1 and Complete Study Guide

Read Chapter 1 of your textbook and answer the study guide questions.

Be sure to answer each question in a complete sentence and be sure to give examples or explain when the question demands it.

You can download the word document and type your answers on the document.

Please try to print out your answers double sided to save paper.

If you don't know the answer to any question you can ask it in class before you turn it in and still get full credit.

You don't have to write down the definition to the terms but you should be able to define each term and give an example of each.  You should be prepared for a quiz on any of the terms or questions in the study guide.

Read "Tragedy of the Commons" and Eutrophication Test

Download and print out the PDF: Tragedy of the commons -- please  try to print double sided.

Read the article and highlight  5-10 passages that are meaningful, provocative,  or worthy of class discussion.  Write 5-10 comments on the margins (or on a separate paper) about your thoughts on the passages.

Be prepared to discuss your analysis and opinions in class.