<p>So it was the first year that APES was at my school for a long time and everyone thought that our teacher was a disorganized mess, but I would just like to say that she prepared us so well for the test. Everyone thought this was so dumb before, but in the middle of the year, one of her assignments was assigning each student in the class with a different invasive species to research and present to the class the next week. On presentation day, we all presented each of ours and she also made us fill out a chart with all of the invasive species presented that day. She also made us do a chart for examples of pesticides, biodiversity hotspots, and also endangered animals which everyone thought was just too much.</p>
<p>And so it finally came to AP Exam day and I got to the Free-Response question and I proudly wrote about the Kudzu Vine and how it invaded the southern US and blocked the sunlight from native plants. I was so glad she made us do this because in class everyone just underestimated my teacher so much because she had only taught Aquatic Science on-level before and everyone thought that she would not be ready to teach an AP class, but honestly it was the exact opposite. I felt most prepared for the APES test than any other test I took this year (Maybe because it was probably the easiest), but I really thought that my teacher helped a whole bunch.</p>
<p>Also the Toad you guys were talking about earlier is the Cane Toad in Australia being introduced to wipe out the native Cane beetles… I actually wrote about this in the invasive species being introduced to wipe out a nonnative species, but the Cane beetles were actually native species so I probably missed that part.</p>
<p>Did anyone else think that the question (for the 1st free response, I think?) about how you had to give two examples of something that would result in rising sea levels also caused climate change? I don’t remember… but I got stuck there for a bit because of the weird wording and I think I ended up writing something about glaciers melting and ocean thermohaline circulation disruption because I couldn’t really think of anything else that causes rising sea levels.</p>