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APES Websites
College Board Websites
College Board Course Description:
http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-environmental-science-course-description.pdf
Sample Free Response Questions:
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/envsci/samp.html?envsciOnline Textbook and Study ResourcesGeneral Interest and Nongovernmental Agencies
The Academy of Natural Sciences Estuarine Research Center: www.acnatsci.org/research/anserc
Access Excellence: The National Health Museum: www.accessexcellence.org
Adopt-a-Watershed: www.adopt-a-watershed.org
Air and Waste Management Association: www.awma.org
American Forests: www.americanforests.org
American Horticultural Society: www.ahs.org
American Lung Association: www.lungusa.org
American Meteorological Society: www.ametsoc.org
American Museum of Natural History Center for Biodiversity and Conservation:
research.amnh.org/biodiversity
American Rivers: www.americanrivers.org
American Society for Horticultural Science: www.ashs.org
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography: aslo.org
American Water Works Association: www.awwa.org
America’s Parks Online: www.parksonline.org
The Biota of North America Program of the North Carolina Botanical Garden: www.bonap.org
Botanical Society of America: www.botany.org
Brooklyn Botanic Garden: www.bbg.org
Center for a Sustainable Future: csf.concord.org
Center for Clean Air Policy: www.ccap.org
Center for Health, Environment and Justice: www.chej.org
Center for International Forestry Research: www.cifor.cgiar.org
Center for Science in the Public Interest: www.cspinet.org
Chesapeake Bay Foundation: www.cbf.org
Clean Water Action: www.cleanwateraction.org
Colorado School of Mines: www.mines.edu
Community Transportation Association of America: www.ctaa.org
CONCERN, Inc.: www.health.gov/nhic
Conservation International: www.conservation.org
Consumer Federation of America: www.consumerfed.org
Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program: www.citizen.org/cmep
Defenders of Wildlife: www.defenders.org
Desert Research Institute: www.dri.edu
Desert USA (basic information on desert ecosystems): desertusa.com
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.: www.ducks.org
Earth First!: www.earthfirst.org
Earth Island Institute: www.earthisland.org
Earthscape: www.earthscape.org
Earthwatch Institute: www.earthwatch.org
EE-Link (environmental education resources): eelink.net
EnergyNet Community Web: www.energynet.net
EnviroLink: The Online Environmental Community: www.envirolink.org
Environmental Action Foundation: www.agc.org/Environmental_Info
Environmental Defense: www.environmentaldefense.org
Environmental Education site of the National Wildlife Federation: www.nwf.org/education
Environmental Law Institute: www.eli.org
Environmental Literacy Council: www.enviroliteracy.org
Environmental News Network: www.enn.com
Freedom from Hunger: www.freefromhunger.org
Friends of the Earth: www.foe.org
GIS Café.com (technology updates): www01.giscafe.com
The GLOBE Program: Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment: www.globe.gov
GREEN: Global Rivers Environmental Education Network: www.green.org
Greenpeace, Inc.: www.greenpeaceusa.org
How the WeatherWorks™: www.weatherworks.com
Institute for Local Self-Reliance: www.ilsr.org
Institute of Global Environment and Society: grads.iges.org
Intellicast.com—Weather for Active Lives: www.intellicast.com (weather forecasts)
International Planned Parenthood Federation: www.ippf.org
The Izaak Walton League of America: www.iwla.org
The Jane Goodall Institute: www.janegoodall.org
The JASON Project™: www.jasonproject.org
Land Trust Alliance: www.lta.org
League of Conservation Voters: www.lcv.org
National Audubon Society: www.audubon.org
National Center for Atmospheric Research: www.ncar.ucar.edu
National Council for Science and the Environment: www.ncseonline.org
National Park Foundation: www.nationalparks.org
National Parks Conservation Association: www.npca.org
National Resources Defense Council: www.nrdc.org
National Tree Trust: www.nationaltreetrust.org
National Wildlife Federation: www.nwf.org
The Nature Conservancy: nature.org
NatureServe: A Network Connecting Science with Conservation: www.natureserve.org
North American Cartographic Information Society: www.nacis.org
The Ocean Conservancy: www.oceanconservancy.org
Pathfinder Science Digital Monarch Watch: pathfinderscience.net/monarch
PBS: Six Billion and Beyond: Population in the New Millennium (population information and population
counter): www.pbs.org/sixbillion
Physicians for Social Responsibility: www.psr.org
Planet Drum Foundation: www.planetdrum.org
Planned Parenthood® Federation of America, Inc.: www.plannedparenthood.org
Population Action International: www.populationaction.org
Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth): www.populationconnection.org
The Population Institute: www.populationinstitute.org
Population Reference Bureau: www.prb.org
Population Resource Center: www.prcdc.org
Project for Public Spaces: Urban Parks Online: pps.org/upo
Project WILD: www.projectwild.org
Public Lands Information Center™: www.publiclands.org
Public Citizen: www.citizen.org
Rachel Carson Council, Inc.: members.aol.com/rccouncil/ourpage
Rainforest Action Network: www.ran.org
Rainforest Alliance: www.rainforest-alliance.org
Renew America: sol.crest.org/environment/renew_america
Resources for the Future: www.rff.org
Rocky Mountain Institute: www.rmi.org
The Rodale Institute: www.rodaleinstitute.org
Save Our Streams: www.saveourstreams.org
Science NetLinks: www.sciencenetlinks.com
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society: www.seashepherd.org
Sierra Club: www.sierraclub.org
Society of American Foresters: www.safnet.org
State PIRGs (public interest research groups): www.pirg.org
The Stream Study (using macroinvertebrates): www.people.virginia.edu/~sos-iwla
The Student Conservation Association, Inc.: www.thesca.org
Sustainable Agriculture Network: www.sare.org
Terra Server (aerial photographs): terraserver.microsoft.com
The Trust for Public Land: www.tpl.org
Union of Concerned Scientists: www.ucsusa.org
The U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Network: www.lternet.edu
Volcano World: volcano.und.nodak.edu
Water Environment Federation®: www.wef.org
Water Environment Research Foundation: www.werf.org
Wild Ones—Native Plants, Natural Landscapes: www.for-wild.org
The Wilderness Society: www.wilderness.org
Wildlife Habitat Council: www.wildlifehc.org
Wildlife Management Institute: www.wildlifemanagementinstitute.org
The Wildlife Society: www.wildlife.org
World Population Clock: www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop
World Resources Institute: www.wri.org
World Wildlife Fund: www.wwf.org
Worldwatch Institute: www.worldwatch.org
Government Agencies
Bureau of Land Management: www.blm.gov
Bureau of Transportation Statistics: www.bts.gov
Clean Cities Program: www.ccities.doe.gov
Forest Products Laboratory: USDA Forest Service: www.fpl.fs.fed.us
(NASA) Teaching Earth Science: www.earth.nasa.gov/education
National Hurricane Center: www.nhc.noaa.gov
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: www.noaa.gov
National Park Foundation: www.nationalparks.org
The National Park Service: www.nps.gov
National Resources Conservation Service: www.nrcs.usda.gov
National Response Center: www.nrc.uscg.mil/nrchp.html
National Weather Service: www.nws.noaa.gov
Occupational Safety and Health Administration: www.osha.gov
Office of Biological and Environmental Research: www.er.doe.gov/production/ober/ober_top.html
Smithsonian Institution: www.si.edu
United Nations Environment Programme: www.unep.org
U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers: www.usace.army.mil