AP Environmental Science

• Earth Systems and Resources
  • Earth's structure
  • Plate tectonics
  • Earthquakes
  • Volcanoes
  • The rotation of the earth
  • Weather and climate
  • The atmosphere
  • Heat transfer and global interactions
  • ENSO
  • The water cycle
  • Improving soil
  • Soil
  • The rock cycle
• The Living World
  • Ecosystems and succession
  • Introduction to biodiversity
  • Rainforests
  • Aerobic respiration
  • Photosynthesis
  • Energy flow in food chains
  • Representing energy flow
  • The process of evolution
  • The carbon cycle
  • The nitrogen cycle
  • Measuring biodiversity
  • The importance of biodiversity
• Population
  • Describing populations
  • Human populations
  • Population distribution
  • Human impact on the environment
  • Managing population change
  • Investigating populations
• Land and Water Use
  • Types of agriculture
  • Food supply and demand
  • Managing water supply
  • Productivity and farming
  • Species conservation
  • Urbanization
  • The impact of mining
  • Over-fishing
  • Globalization
  • Land conservation options
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Public and federal lands
  • Rangelands
  • Nutritional requirements
  • Forestry
• Energy Resources and Consumption
  • Energy transfers
  • Formation of fossil fuels
  • Crude oil
  • Fractional distillation
  • Finite energy resources
  • Fossil fuels
  • Nuclear fission
  • Nuclear waste
  • Chain reactions
  • Hydroelectric power
  • River flooding
  • Solar energy
  • Hydrogen fuel cells
  • Wind power
  • Tidal power
  • Wave power
  • Geothermal power
  • Nuclear fusion
  • Energy forms
  • Energy consumption
• Pollution
  • Air pollution
  • Water pollution
  • Smoking
• Global Change
  • The impact of using CFCs
  • Greenhouse gases
  • Climate change
  • Threats to biodiversity
  • Evidence for climate change
  • Predicting climate change