AP Environmental Science

Study the relationships of the natural world, identify and analyze environmental problems, assess risk, understand potential solutions and prevent similar problems.

Pairs well with AP Statistics

Textbook

Wright, Richard and Dorothy Boorse. Environmental Science. Boston, MA: Benjamin Cummings.

Possibilities Summarized

Silent spring by Rachel Carson
The sixth extinction : An unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Elements of Ecology by Robert Leo Smith
The world without us by Alan Weisman
Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods.
Fisher, Ron. The Earth Pack. The National Geographic Society, 1995
Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005

Basic Details

The percentage of students scoring a “5” on the exam is one of the lowest.

Year% scoring 5% scoring 4% scoring 3% scoring 2% scoring 1% 3 or highermeanstandard deviationnumber of students
2017[13]9.5%24.5%15.4%24.5%26.2%49.4%2.671.34159,578
2018[14]8.8%23.9%15.0%25.8%26.5%47.7%2.631.33166,433
2019[15]9.5%25.9%14.2%25.5%24.9%49.6%2.701.34172,456
2020[16]11.9%28.5%13.0%25.5%21.0%53.4%2.851.35162,469
2021[17]6%24%18%28%23%48%149,106
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Environmental_Science