Reading Timeline for Environmental Science

 

AP Environmental Science Timeline

2013-2014

First Semester

Textbook: Environmental Science: A Global Concern,

                        12^th E, Cunningham & Cunningham

 This is Week Four. We will start in Chapter 4 and pick up the missing chapters during our breaks.

Chapter	Topics	Timeline (weeks)	2009 – 2010 Dates	Essays	College Board Themes
	First Six Weeks				II. The Living World (10 – 15%)
1, 2	Environmental Sustainability	1 weeks
3	Ecosystems			2003 #1, 2003 #3	LW – A. Ecosystem Structure
3	How ecosystems work Hydrolytic cycle	2 weeks		2008 #3	LW – B. Energy Flow LW – E. Natural Biogeochemical Cycles
4	Communities and Succession	1 week			LW – D. Natural Ecosystem Change
5	Ecosystem evolution, Ecosystem resources	2 week	24 days Ends Sept. 27		LW - C. – Ecosystem Diversity
	Second Six Weeks			1998 #4	III. Population (10 – 15%)
6	Human Populations	3 weeks		2003 #2, 2003 #4	P – A. Population Biology Concepts
7	Population development			2000 #3, 2000 #4	P – B.  Population size, growth, dynamics
11, 12	Wild Species, Protection	3 weeks		2001 #2, 2008 #4	GC – C. Loss of Diversity
12, 13	Public and Private land use		28 days Ends Nov. 8		IV. Land and Water Use (10 – 15%) LWU – B/F. Forestry, Fishing
22	Sustainability and Urban Sprawl				LWU – D. Urban, Federal, Public Land Use
	Third Six Weeks				I. Earth Systems and Resources (10 – 15%)
14	Geology,	2 weeks			ES - A. Earth Science Concepts – Geological time
10	Soils and soil ecosystems			2004 #4	ES - D. Soil and Soil Dynamics
9	Food distribution, hunger	1 week			LWU – A/C  Agriculture, Rangelands
19	Nonrenewable resources, fossil fuels, electrical power production, mining coal	3 week	27 Days Ends Dec. 20	2005 #3, 2005 #4 2002 #2 2001 #1, 2000 #1 1998 #1,	V. Energy Resources & Consumption (10 – 15%) ERC – A/B  Energy Concepts, Consumption ERC – E. Hydroelectric Power ERC – C.  Fossil Fuel Resources and Use LWU – E. Mining for Coal
19	Nuclear power			1998 #2	ERC – D. Nuclear Power

 

 

 

Second Semester

 

	Fourth Six Weeks
20	Renewable Energy Solar, Wind, Water Energy			2004 #2, 1999 #2 2006 #1, 2002 #1	ERC – F. Energy Conservation, hybrid cars ERC – G. Renewable Energy
17	Water Resources	3 weeks		2007 #2, 2009 #3	I. Earth Systems and Resources (10 – 15%)
18	Water pollution			2001 #4, 2004 #1	ES – C. Global Water Resources and Use
15	The Atmosphere	3 weeks	32 Days Ends Feb.21	2002 #4, 2007 #3 1999 #1, 2002 #1	VII. Global Change (10 – 15%) GC – A. Stratospheric Ozone GC – B. Global Warming ES - B. The Atmosphere
16	Atmospheric pollution			1999 #3, 2001 #3	VI. Pollution (25 – 30%)
				2007 #4, 2006 #2 2009 #1, 1998 #3	PO – A. Pollution Types: Air, Noise, Water, Land PO – B. Impacts on the Environment / Health PO – C. Economic Impacts
	Fifth Six Weeks			2008 #2,
8	Risk assessment, Environmental hazards	3 weeks		2004 #1, 2005#1, 2006 #4	PO – B/C.  Human health, risk analysis
10, 4, 5	Pesticides, pest control			2002 #3,1999 #4,	LWU – A. Agriculture, controlling pests
21	Solid / Hazardous waste, disposal	3 weeks	2000 #2	2004 #3, 2005 #2	PO – A. Pollution Types, solid waste
21	Waste disposal, hazardous chemicals			2007 #1, 2006 #3	PO – B. Human health, chemical biomagnification
23, 24	Environmental Economics		34 days	2008 #1, 2009 #4	LWU – G. Global Economics
			Ends April 18		P – B. Human population, economic effects
	Sixth Six Weeks
	Review for AP Exam – Essay Writing	2 weeks

AP Environmental Science - College Board Themes

 

I.  Earth Systems and Resources (ES)	V. Energy Resources and Consumption (ERC)
II. The Living World (LW)	VI. Pollution (PO)
III. Population (P)	VII. Global Change (GC)
IV. Land and Water Use (LWU)