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AP Environmental Science Guide

The document provides an overview of the format, content, and effective study strategies for the AP Environmental Science exam. The exam consists of multiple choice and free response sections covering topics like earth systems, population, energy, and pollution. It also outlines a review plan to help students adequately prepare for the exam.

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AP Environmental Science Guide

The document provides an overview of the format, content, and effective study strategies for the AP Environmental Science exam. The exam consists of multiple choice and free response sections covering topics like earth systems, population, energy, and pollution. It also outlines a review plan to help students adequately prepare for the exam.

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AP Environmental Science Review Guide

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Knowing how to review for an AP test can be challenging, and, based on average exam scores, it
appears that many students who take AP Environmental Science don’t adequately prepare for the
exam.

Fortunately, if you’re not sure where to start, this guide will walk you through the complete of AP
Environmental Science review process. I’ll start by going over the format of the exam and what
it’ll cover, including sample questions, and then I’ll move on to the specific review strategies and
plan you should follow in order to be prepared for the exam.

What's the Format of the AP Environmental Science


Exam?
The AP Environmental Science Exam is three hours long and divided into two sections, multiple-
choice and free-response.

Multiple-Choice Section
 100 questions
 90 minutes

 Worth 60% of your score

 Questions will be both stand-alone and as part of sets

 You earn one point for each correct answer, and no points are taken off for incorrect
answers (so you should answer every question!)

 No calculator allowed

Free-Response Section
 Four questions
o 1 Document-Based question

o 1 Data Set question

o 2 Synthesis and Evaluation questions

 90 minutes
 Worth 40% of your score (each question is weighted equally)

 No calculator allowed
What Content Does the AP Environmental Science
Exam Cover?
It’ll help to broadly go over what the exam covers to help put everything into
context. Environmental science is a multi-disciplinary topic, and it covers concepts from science,
history, current events, and more.

The exam will touch on many areas, but there are six main themes it seeks to focus on. Every
question you see on the exam will relate back to at least one of these themes, so they’re helpful
to keep in mind as you navigate your review process.

AP Environmental Science Themes


1. Science is a process.
2. Energy conversions underlie all ecological processes.

3. The Earth itself is one interconnected system.

4. Humans alter natural systems.

5. Environmental problems have a cultural and social context.

6. Human survival depends on developing practices that will achieve sustainable systems.

The AP Environmental Science exam also has seven major topics which make up the content
the course and exam focus on. These major topics are more specific than the above themes,
and knowing them helps give you a better idea of what will be covered on the exam.

Each of the topics will make up about 10-15% of the questions on the multiple-choice section,
except for pollution which will make up 25-30% of multiple-choice questions. Each major topic
has multiple smaller topics within it. In the interests of length, I included a selection of these for
each major topic. If you’d like to see the entire list, check out the AP Environmental Science
Course Description (see this on this Blog), beginning on page six.
AP Environmental Science Major Topics

1. Earth Systems and Resources. Topics include:


-Geology
-The atmosphere
-Water resources
-Soil science
2. The Living World. Topics include:
-Ecosystems
-Energy flow
-Biogeochemical cycles
3. Population. Topics include:
-Population ecology
-Reproductive strategies
-Survivorship
4. Land and Water Use. Topics include:
-Agriculture
-Forestry
-Mining
-Fishing
-Global economics
5. Energy Resources and Consumption. Topics include:
-Different types of energy (fossil fuels, nuclear, hydroelectric, etc.)
-Energy consumption
-Renewable energy
6. Pollution. Topics include:
-Types of pollution
-Economic impacts of pollution
-How pollution affects environmental
-Human health
7. Global Change. Topics include:
-Global warming
-Loss of biodiversity
-Changes to the ozone layer

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