***Official AP Environmental Science 2012-2013 Thread***

<p>I have the Princeton Review Book 2010 Edition. Is there much of a difference between this book and the 2013 edition? Just curious.</p>

<p>not really, I picked up the 2012 versioin just in case though</p>

<p>Does anyone know where I can find the release practice multiple choice questions online, preferably from the 2003 or 2008 exam?</p>

<p>yea, I could only find 1998</p>

<p>So what’s everyone doing on these last few days to get ready? I have a list of plausible FRQ predictions that I’ll prepare for, take the PR practice tests, and plan out all the released FRQs, if I have time that is.</p>

<p>I’m reading the REA Crash Course book. It seems quite helpful.</p>

<p>What are your predictions for the FRQs?</p>

<p>^ I think that we’ll have a FRQ on ecology such as wood chain, energy flow, …</p>

<p>Is anyone studying/have studied from the Princeton review book and know if it’s necessary to know all of the laws that it mentions? The review book talks about a lot more laws than what my teacher taught us.</p>

<p>@leo0895 Kind of unlikely. That was last year’s Question 4.</p>

<p>Also I’m studying out of the PR book and I LOVE it. I would make flashcards for all the laws, better safe than sorry and shouldn’t take that long.</p>

<p>@hsstudnt, I just finished taking PR’s prac. exam 1 and I think I used about 2-4 law questions, its your call if you think u need abs. need these few extra points or will still get by w/o them</p>

<p>btw, have not done frq’s yet</p>

<p>So I have learned nothing this year in APES (not kidding)</p>

<p>And the AP Exam is tomorrow. :slight_smile: Any suggestions for me getting a 3 or a 4?</p>

<p>I have no reading material either except for one book, but it isn’t a study book.</p>

<p>Any FRQ predictions? I’ve got a feeling we’ll see fossil fuels or dams.</p>

<p>@Helpgeta34APES–Good luck! I’m not really sure what to tell you other than take notes on the book you have and try to do some practice FRQs if you have time!</p>

<p>I PRAY there’s one on fossil fuels and/or dams! I’m just finishing re-outlining my review book (so have hours to go) but I feel pretty good overall. I just need to work on my specific examples for the FRQs.</p>

<p>Same on the examples. I’m going to do a bunch of practice FRQ’s today.</p>

<p>lol, I hope we get dams, one of my strong ones,</p>

<p>does anyone have any other predictions? also, does it mean renewable resources, ipm, wetlands have a zero percent chance of showing bec of last yr.?</p>

<p>I just googled it and found a YahooAnswers post entitled, “Are there any predictions for the AP Environmental Science free response questions on the test tomorrow?”</p>

<p>One user posted these, which I have formatted/edited for ease of reading:</p>

<p>Keystone pipeline and the Tar Sands
Oil and Oil Spills
Nuclear Energy and recent Japanese nuclear reactor meltdown
Smart Energy Grid/Net Metering
Hormone Mimics (Bisphenol A, Atrazine, etc.)
Extreme Weather/Climate Change (Hurricanes Irene and Sandy)
Invasive Species (Asian carp)
Biodiversity Loss and Poaching
Aerosols and global dimming
China and Pollution (especially with their overuse of coal)
Food Safety and Chemical Contamination
Pandemics and Superbugs (especially as related to factory farming, overuse of antibiotics, etc.)
Sustainable cities
How climate change is causing a new age of extinction
Pollution of marine habitats (overharvesting and water pollution)</p>

<p>However, I personally find it unlikely that some of these will be used. Hormone mimics and the bit about, “climate change is causing a new age of extinction,” mainly–but I really don’t know!</p>

<p>Some of those are plausible, but I’d be shocked to see things like global dimming or superbugs.</p>

<p>Also just found this chart of prior FRQ subjects, which I haven’t looked through/analyzed 100% yet but will do so :)</p>

<p>[APES</a> FRQs so Far](<a href=“http://home.lcusd.net/lchs/mewoldsen/APES/FRQs-CollegeBoard_APES.htm]APES”>APES FRQs so Far)</p>

<p>Superbugs, yes; global dimming, I could see as maybe part of a question.</p>