Mother Nature may have less control of temperature than you think! Young scholars consider the effect urban environments have on local and surrounding temperatures as they respond to one of four free-response assessment questions from the AP® exam. Other questions analyze waste treatment plants, global population trends, and consumer energy usage.

Concepts

sewage, pollutants, solid waste, energy, ozone depletion, urban environments, rural environments, air temperature

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Combine with additional released assessment questions to include like questioning throughout the course
• Design questions as a performance task during appropriate units

Classroom Considerations

• Expects a high level of analysis on various environmental science topics

Pros

• Questions are from previous assessment versions, better setting expectations for upcoming exams
  
• Provides scoring statistics from the assessment year

Cons

• None