2021 AP Environmental Science Exam Review

The in-class 2021 AP Environmental Science Exam is Friday May 14th at noon.


Click to go to the College Board APES Exam Student Page.

Click to review the AP Environmental Science Course At A Glance. This document from the College Board lists all of the topics covered on the APES exam. Note that at Smithtown High School West the course is taught in a different order. Our units are different than on this website; we cover all of the material, just in a different order.

As part of this course you should have learned certain distinct skills, called science practices, that that will help you learn to think and act like an environmental scientist. This document lists these science practices, describes them, and shows the approximate weighting of each skill on both the multiple choice and free response parts of the APES exam.

There are four Big Ideas in APES that are themes that run throughout the course. If you can weave some themes from these Big Ideas into your answers to the free response questions, you will improve your score.



The following links are here for you to use as you see fit. Some are fairly general, while others are pretty specific. You probably cannot use them all, so pick and choose those on topics with which you need more of a review. We will not be using these in class and they will not be required assignments; they are for you to use on your own.

If you find other useful resources that would help other students, please send the link to me (mstrieb@smithtown.k12.ny.us) and I will post them here.


The College Board is offering online videos at the College Board AP Environmental Science YouTube Channel. Note the numbers in the title of each video. They refer to College Board Units. Note that there are no videos on College Board units 8 and 9.



APES Year in Review PowerPoint

Free Response Question Tips PowerPoint


VIDEOS

APES in a Box - A series of lots of videos on many topics covered on the APES Exam. Visit their Vimeo channel and browse.

Bozeman Science - Another series of many video lectures on many topics covered on the APES Exam.

Crash Course has videos on lots of topics for lots of courses. While there is not an Environmental Science course on its own, you can find some useful videos under Ecology, Biology and Chemistry.

This video provides an APES Legislation Review.



WEBSITES


This NY Times interactive website "Timeline: 70 Years of Environmental Change" is an excellent review of major events in environmental science.

Use this website to play Legislative Jeopardy. It provides a fun APES law review.

The College Board provides this useful Energy Primer for the APES Student.

This Quizlet study set 140 Ways to Go APES gives 140 quick words and facts that you need to know for the APES Exam. You can put them in flash card form

This website gives 145 Ways to Go APE - repetitive with the Quizlet above, but with some additions.

Click to view the NATE Chart study guide for Environmental Science and the Bar Chart Quick Study Guide for Environmental Science. These have an incredible amount of information on them. Use them to review quick factoids.