Preparing for the APES Exam
Hand-Out Documents:
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53 Ways to GO APES
APES Review Vocabulary sorted by major topics
2003 Released exam
Several FRQs (See below/ next page)
APCollege Board APES Home Page> Exam Information
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/exam/exam_information/2003.html
Released exams
2003 see hand-out packet or power point on Mrs H’s Website
1998 see Mrs. H’s Website OR clink on the link below for the the full version with FRQs:
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/env-sci-released-exam-1998.pdf
On-line Study Material
A. Miller 16th ed. Text Book
o Front few pages of Text book
 (pages xxix – xxxvi “ Taking the AP* Environmental Science”) Exam
o Cengage Website (great Quizzes and Flash cards for each Chapter) click the link below:
http://www.cengage.com/cgiwadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20bI&product_isbn_issn=9780495556718&token=76224
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A. Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet (separate Chapters of Reading material, videos & a few
interactive activities
http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/index.html
B. Education Portal
http://education-portal.com/academy/course/environment-and-humanity.html
The Education Portal course Environmental Science 101: Environment and Humanity can teach you to differentiate between conservation and
preservation, while also introducing you to the subfields of atmospheric, geological and biological science.
Free Response Questions
The links listed below are the rubrics for the questions I handed out to each of you. The links that match each
of those questions are printed below. The rubrics are fantastic “short versions” of what we have covered in
class AND are on just 2 or three pages per major topic! They are well organized lists of important facts.
Climate
Year/ #
Topic
Link to Rubric
Math/Calc
‘06/#2
Climate & CO2
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/_ap06_envsci_sg.pdf
Synth/Eval
‘10/#4
Climate Change
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap10_envi_sci_scoring_guidelines.pdf
Energy
DBQ
‘08/#1
Renewable Energy
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap08_env_sci_sgs.pdf
Math/Calc
‘09/#2
Renewable Energy
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap09_env_sci_sgs.pdf
Synth/Eval
‘11/#3(graph) Energy Consumption
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap11_env_sci_scoring_guidelines.pdf
Water
Math/Calc
‘07/#2
Water Usage
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/_ap07_env_sci_sgs_final.pdf
Synth/Eval
‘09/#3
Dams
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap09_env_sci_sgs.pdf
Experiment ‘12/#3
Pesticides
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap12_environmentalscience_scoringguidelines.p
df
Misc. Topics
Human Population
Food (calc) ‘05/#2
Meat v. grain
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/_ap05_sg_envir_sci_46586.pdf
Solid Waste ‘00/#2
Recycling
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/repository/sg_envir_sci_00.pdf
Ecol/ Food Webs
‘12/#4
Food Web
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap12_environmentalscience_scoringguidelines.p
df
Invasive Species
‘11/#1
Beetles
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap11_env_sci_scoring_guidelines.pdf