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Preface
Advanced Placement ® Guide for Environmental Science
Prepared by Brian Kaestner of Saint Mary’s Hall
these are available on the Instructor’s Resource Web site
(www.wiley.com/college/botkin). The Advanced Placement
Guide provides a useful tool for high school instructors who
are teaching the AP ® Environmental Science course. This
guide will help teachers to focus on the key concepts of every
chapter to prepare students for the Advanced Placement ®
Exam. Each chapter includes a Chapter Overview that incorporates
critical thinking questions, Key Topics important to
the exam, and Web links to Laboratories and Activities that
reinforce key topics.
Instructor’s Web Site
All instructor resources are available on the instructor
section of the Wiley Botkin/Keller Web site (www.wiley.com/
college/botkin) and within the Wiley Resource Kit.
Completion of this book was only possible due to the cooperation
and work of many people. To all those who so freely offered
their advice and encouragement in this endeavor, we offer our
most sincere appreciation. We are indebted to our colleagues
who made contributions.
We greatly appreciate the work of our editor Rachel Falk at
John Wiley & Sons, for support, encouragement, assistance,
and professional work. We extend thanks to our production
editor Janet Foxman, who did a great job and made important
contributions in many areas; to Wendy Lai for a beautiful interior
design; Ellinor Wagner for photo research; Anna Melhorn
for the illustration program. Thanks go out also for editorial assistance
from Alissa Etrheim. The extensive media package was
enhanced through the efforts of Linda Muriello and Daniela
DiMaggio.