PREDICTIONS: Free-Response AP Environental Science [APES]

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<p>I don’t know if any of your teachers do this, but mine tried to “predict” what is “due” to come around for this upcoming free response section. I’ll share what my teacher thought, and hopefully some of you can share what your teachers, or yourselves, think.</p>

<p>-Experimental Design
-Green Building Techniques (Passive and Active Heating, solar power roof, etc)
-Hydrogen Full Cells…Including Vehicles
-CFLs versus Incandescent Lightbulbs
-Emissions Trading (Cap & Trade) Programs [I disagree with him on this one]</p>

<p>He especially thinks Experimental Design, because there was one in 1999 (#1) , 2001 (#2), 2003(#1), and there hasn’t been another one since.</p>

<p>Here is a guideline he wrote that explains how to create a controlled experiment according to the college board guidelines as dictated by released grading rubrics:
<a href=“http://www.mediafire.com/file/tjzmithkyze/Tips%20for%20exp%20design%20questions.doc[/url]”>http://www.mediafire.com/file/tjzmithkyze/Tips%20for%20exp%20design%20questions.doc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>If you want a link to all the AP Free Responses, go here:
[AP:</a> Environmental Science - Sample Questions & Scoring Guidelines](<a href=“AP Environmental Science Exam – AP Students | College Board”>AP Environmental Science Exam – AP Students | College Board)</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>whats a CFL?</p>

<p>but you also gotta remember that the exam has changed a TON since 2003. i doubt a design will be on there.</p>

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<p><strong><em>UPDATE</em></strong></p>

<p>Ill keep a list of User-Submitted predictions here:
-Global Warming+ Ozone Layer (Damage?)
-How Photochemical Pollution is Formed</p>

<p>Dayadam:
CFL=Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb
<a href=“http://www.withamymac.com/news/wp-content/cfl.jpg[/url]”>http://www.withamymac.com/news/wp-content/cfl.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Yeah, no doubt it has changed. But the concept of deducing what is “due” to be on the exam comes from looking at questions that have been asked before more than once, and there is more likely to be questions that have not been <em>recently</em> asked. That is just a general college board pattern. Experimental design fits that category more than any other topic that has been asked in the 11-year history of APES ; )</p>

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<p>I would guess something on global warming and the ozone layer.</p>

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<p>CFL is an alternative to incandescent light bulbs, which lose 90% of their energy to heat, CFLs use 1/5 to 1/4 of the energy and last up to ten times longer.
CFL=Compact Fluorescent Lamp</p>

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<p>Guys, I feel like I am not preparing enough for a 5.
What should I do?
I read the stuff and do the notes last year…I mostly forgot everything now…</p>

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<p>I hope experimental design!</p>

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<p>haha, whatevs dude. you’re gonna open up your FR packet and then frantically look through the questions to find the part the says “design an experiment” so those long hours preparing for it didn’t go to waste but then you’ll come to find that it’s not on the exam and that damn dayadam kid was right. in its place will be how photochemical pollution is formed.</p>

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<p>Yeah, maybe. But the only two air pollution questions were on 1999 (#3) and 2001 (#3). So if you are going by your own logic, of the exam changing a “ton” since 2003, then my suggestion trumps yours : )</p>

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<p>Its tomorrow! Bump!</p>

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<p>Ok so there was actually a photochemical smog question last year, 2009, so there will definitely not be one this year.</p>