ADVANCED PLACEMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
COURSE SCHEDULE
Approximate Topic Outline
First
Quarter
Chapter
1 -- Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability
Chapter
2 -- Environmental History: An Overview
Chapter
3 -- Science, Systems, Matter, and Energy
Chapter
4 -- Ecosystems: Components, Energy Flow, and Matter Cycling
Chapter
6 -- Biogeography: Weather, Climate, Biomes, and Terrestrial Biodiversity
Chapter
23 -- Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach
Second
Quarter
Chapter
7 -- Aquatic Ecology: Biodiversity in Aquatic Systems
Chapter
24 -- Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity
Chapter
10 -- Geology: Processes, Hazards, and Soils
Chapter
11 -- Risk, Toxicology, and Human Health
Chapter
8 -- Community Ecology: Structure, Species Interactions, Succession, and
Sustainability
Chapter
9 -- Population Dynamics, Carrying Capacity, and Conservation Biology
Chapter
12 -- The Human Population: Growth, Demography, and Carrying
Capacity
Third
Quarter
Chapter 13 -- Food Resources
Chapter
14 -- Water Resources
Chapter
19 -- Water Pollution
Chapter
15 -- Geologic Resources: Nonrenewable Mineral and Energy Resources
Chapter 16 -- Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
Chapter 17 -- Air and Air Pollution
Chapter 18 -- Climate Changes and
Ozone Loss
Chapter 20 -- Pesticides and
Chapter 21 -- Solid and Hazardous
Waste
Fourth
Quarter
Chapter 26 -- Economics,
Environment, and Sustainability
Chapter 27 -- Politics, Environment,
and Sustainability
Chapter 28 -- Environmental
Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability
AP
Exam Review
Research Projects
Field Trip
Personal
Chapter
5 -- Evolution and Diversity: Origins, Niches, and Adaptation
Chapter
22 -- Sustaining Wild Species
Chapter 25 -- Sustainable Cities: Urban Land Use and Management