AP Environmental Science (Period 1)

The AP Environmental Science course is designed to be the equivalent of a one-semester, introductory college course in environmental science. Unlike most other introductory-level college science courses, environmental science is offered from a wide variety of departments, including geology, biology, environmental studies, environmental science, chemistry, and geography.  The AP Environmental Science course is intended to enable students to undertake, as first-year college students, a more advanced study of topics in environmental science or, alternatively, to fulfill a basic requirement for a laboratory science.  In both breadth and level of detail, the content of the APES course reflects what is found in many introductory college courses in environmental science.  The exam is representative of such a course and therefore is considered appropriate for the measurement of skills and knowledge in the field of environmental science.