<p>1) Is it like some "environmental" course, meaning that it's just global warming and all that stuff? Or is it more on earth science and more of the actual science behind everything. I like earth science, and this would be the closet my high school would actually come to offering an "earth science" course. But I would not take it if it just discussed global warming and saving the environment.</p>
<p>2) Is it a lot of work? I would take it concurrently with honors physics senior year, so I wouldn't want it to be too much.</p>
<p>It is neither strictly earth science nor is it strictly about global warming and the sort. Environmental science covers everything from earth and its interdependent systems, the inhabitants of planet earth and their relationships, population ecology, resource utilization, energy, pollution, and cultural/societal/environmental quality. I highly recommend this course, as it is very basic but also interesting. I self-studied and I’m pretty sure I managed to pull a 5.</p>
<p>It’s also not that difficult. We did a ton of labs and some light reading (twenty or so pages a week), but it was very interesting. Our class was equal parts environmental science and environmental policy. I found that the test was science oriented, but it did cover a lot of what we covered. Unless you’re really bad at science or your school gives an abnormal workload for either course, you should be just fine with APES and Honors Physics.</p>
<p>Yeah, pretty much what Shizzle said. Expect a lot of the ecology from AP Biology if you took it and other stuff like that. I think that just knowing pollution guarantees you at least a 3. Also, make sure you’re not completely horrible at math because you’ll miss the 5-8 or so math questions on the test. You can easily pull a 5 with PR and Barron’s flashcards. That combo helped me out but I don’t think PR alone was sufficient.</p>