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Advanced Placement Earth and Environmental Science
Goal 2
- Objective 2.01
- Analyze the flow of energy.
- Forms and quality of energy.
- Laws of Thermodynamics.
- Energy units and measurements.
- Sources and sinks, conversions.
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- Objective 2.02
- Investigate the cycling of matter.
- Water.
- Carbon.
- Nitrogen.
- Phosphorus.
- Sulfur.
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- Objective 2.03
- Investigate the solid Earth.
- Earth history and the geologic time scale.
- Influences of plate tectonics on evolution and biodiversity.
- Volcanism.
- The rock cycle.
- Soil formation.
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- Objective 2.04
- Investigate the atmosphere.
- Atmospheric history: origin and evolution.
- Composition.
- Structure.
- Atmospheric dynamics: weather and climate.
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- Objective 2.05
- Investigate the biosphere.
- Organisms: adaptations to their environment.
- Populations and communities: exponential growth and carrying capacity.
- Ecosystems and change: biomass, energy transfer, succession.
- Evolution of life: natural selection, extinction.
- Biomes: global distribution.
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