Summer Assignment
AP Environmental Science Summer Assignment – 2017/2018
Welcome to APES!!! – NOTE: CHEMISTRY IS A PRE-REQ FOR THIS COURSE!!!
AP Environmental Science is a lab-based course that is designed to examine ecological, biological, chemical, physical and environmental concepts and interactions. The objective of this summer assignment is to get you thinking environmentally and to refresh some math and chemistry skills. There are three sections.
Please assemble all printed materials in order and have them labeled. Section 1 & 2 should be handwritten.
Math Assignment - Please complete the following problems, showing all work. There will be a quiz the second week of school with basic problems involving decimals, percentages, dimensional analysis, metric system, and scientific notation and problems like the ones below. All of this should be review from math courses and chemistry.
Extra Math Tutorials and Practice (not required): http://mrsbssciencescoop.weebly.com/math-practice.html
Scientific Notation:
http://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/fyp/mathrev/mr-scnot.html
Dimensional Analysis:
o http://www.chemprofessor.com/dimension_text.htm
o http://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/fyp/mathrev/mr-da.html
Long Division and Multiplication with decimals:
o http://www.mathsisfun.com/dividing-decimals.html
o http://www.tutors4you.com/tutorialondecimals.htm
Percentages:
2. Think Global! Part II (~1.5 hours) – “HOME” by Arthus-Bertrand
Watch the video on You Tube and answer the following questions as you watch. Use this link or just search by title and author. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
1. Describe the conditions on early Earth.
2. What happened to the carbon that poisoned the atmosphere?
3. How did the agricultural revolution change the Earth?
4. How has Earth changed in the last 60 years since the use of oil has become more widespread?
5. What is most of the grain in the US used for?
6. What led to the dramatic decline in the biodiversity of agricultural crop species?
7. How many kilos of water does it take to produce 1 kilo of beef?
8. How have cars shaped the way housing is laid out in the US and other developed countries?
9. How much has the volume of international trade increased since 1950?
10. What are your thoughts on how the video portrays Dubai? Is it self-sustainable?
11. Rainforests are cut down to make farmland for which products/crops?
12. What makes the growth of Lagos different from how most other cities grow?
13. Where does the water from Greenland’s melting ice sheet go?
14. Why are the glaciers of mountains so important for the people in the lowlands?
15. What hope does the video offer at the end?
Welcome to APES!!! – NOTE: CHEMISTRY IS A PRE-REQ FOR THIS COURSE!!!
AP Environmental Science is a lab-based course that is designed to examine ecological, biological, chemical, physical and environmental concepts and interactions. The objective of this summer assignment is to get you thinking environmentally and to refresh some math and chemistry skills. There are three sections.
Please assemble all printed materials in order and have them labeled. Section 1 & 2 should be handwritten.
- Brush Up Your Prerequisite Skills - No Calculators allowed on AP Exam, so no calculators on this!
Math Assignment - Please complete the following problems, showing all work. There will be a quiz the second week of school with basic problems involving decimals, percentages, dimensional analysis, metric system, and scientific notation and problems like the ones below. All of this should be review from math courses and chemistry.
- By hand/no calculator: 1) 0.056 x 1.2 2) 345 ÷ 5.9 3) 0.345 ÷ 5.9
- You may someday purchase a house that has 1000 square meters of living space. How many square kilometers of living space is this?
- If a calorie is equivalent to 4.184 joules, how many joules are contained in that 250 kilocalorie slice of pizza?
- Convert to scientific notation and then calculate: 1) 10,000,000 x 20,000 2) 320,000,000 ÷ 50,000,000
- A population of rabbits has 350 individuals. If the population grows by 26% in one year, how many deer will there be the next year?
- One year the local park had 157 chipmunks living in it. The next year a disease occurred and the numbers dropped to 89. What percent did the population decrease by?
- Your car is rated at 28 miles per gallon. You want to go on a road trip to your uncle’s house, which is 289 miles away. If gas costs $2.84/gallon, will $200 be enough? Setup this problem using dimensional analysis, like in chemistry.
Extra Math Tutorials and Practice (not required): http://mrsbssciencescoop.weebly.com/math-practice.html
Scientific Notation:
http://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/fyp/mathrev/mr-scnot.html
Dimensional Analysis:
o http://www.chemprofessor.com/dimension_text.htm
o http://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/fyp/mathrev/mr-da.html
Long Division and Multiplication with decimals:
o http://www.mathsisfun.com/dividing-decimals.html
o http://www.tutors4you.com/tutorialondecimals.htm
Percentages:
- https://www.mathsisfun.com/percentage.html
- http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/anns/mps/math/mathlab/beg_algebra/beg_alg_tut16_percent.htm
2. Think Global! Part II (~1.5 hours) – “HOME” by Arthus-Bertrand
Watch the video on You Tube and answer the following questions as you watch. Use this link or just search by title and author. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
1. Describe the conditions on early Earth.
2. What happened to the carbon that poisoned the atmosphere?
3. How did the agricultural revolution change the Earth?
4. How has Earth changed in the last 60 years since the use of oil has become more widespread?
5. What is most of the grain in the US used for?
6. What led to the dramatic decline in the biodiversity of agricultural crop species?
7. How many kilos of water does it take to produce 1 kilo of beef?
8. How have cars shaped the way housing is laid out in the US and other developed countries?
9. How much has the volume of international trade increased since 1950?
10. What are your thoughts on how the video portrays Dubai? Is it self-sustainable?
11. Rainforests are cut down to make farmland for which products/crops?
12. What makes the growth of Lagos different from how most other cities grow?
13. Where does the water from Greenland’s melting ice sheet go?
14. Why are the glaciers of mountains so important for the people in the lowlands?
15. What hope does the video offer at the end?