Course: Online Advanced Placement Environmental Science
Course: Online Advanced Placement Environmental Science
Online Advanced Placement Environmental Science
This curriculum covers all of the material outlined by the College Board as necessary to prepare students to pass the AP Environmental Science exam. This course is designed to acquaint students with the physical, ecological, social, and political principles of environmental science. The scientific method is used to analyze and understand the inter-relationships between humans and the natural environment. The course shows how ecological realities and the material desires of humans often clash, leading to environmental degradation and pollution. The course covers the following topics: Earth’s Systems, Human Population Dynamics, Natural Resources, Environmental Quality, Global Changes, and Environment and Society. Upon completion of this course students will know and understand the levels of the ecological hierarchy, appreciate the integration of natural processes that govern the natural world, appreciate the importance of maintaining a sustaining biosphere for the continued presence of a human population on the earth, understand the pragmatic and realistic difficulties of integrating human societal needs without further compromising ecological processes, become familiar with the ecological background to global environmental problems, and realize the consequences of our individual and joint actions upon the biosphere. Students may take the first halfcredit of the course without taking the second half-credit but may not take the second half-credit of the course without taking the first half-credit.
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Earth and Space Science or Physical Science, Weighted
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