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Aquatic Science
Fall Semester
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First Week Stuff
Marine Careers
Marine Resources
Environmental Concerns
Knowing the Ocean World
Origins
Earth Structure and Plate Tectonics
Continental Margins and Ocean Basins
Sediments
Water and Ocean Structure
Seawater Chemistry
Circulation of the Atmosphere and Ocean
Waves and Tides
Coasts
Spring Semester
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Life in the Ocean
Marine Communities
Plankton, Algae, & Plants
Embryology
Poriferans & Simple Marine Animals
Cnidarians and Ctenophorans
Marine Worms
Mollusks
Arthropods and Lophophores
Echinoderms
Primitive Chordates
Fish
Marine Reptiles and Birds
Marine Mammals
Marine Animal Review
AP Physics C: Mechanics
First Week Stuff
Chapter 1: Measurement
Chapter 2: Motion Along a Straight Line
Chapter 3: Vectors
Chapter 4: Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
Chapter 5: Force and Motion I
Chapter 6: Force and Motion II
Chapter 7: Kinetic Energy and Work
Chapter 8: Potential Energy and Conservation
Chapter 9: Center of Mass and Linear Momentum
AP Environmental Science
First Week Stuff
Unit I: Humans and Sustainability: An Overview
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Chapter 1: Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability
Unit II: Science, Ecological Principles, and Sustainability
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Chapter 2: Science, Matter, Energy, and Systems
Chapter 3: Ecosystems: What are They and How Do They Work?
Chapter 4: Biodiversity and Evolution
Chapter 5: Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control
Chapter 6: The Human Population and Its Impact
Chapter 7: Climate and Biodiversity
Chapter 8: Aquatic Biodiversity
Unit III: Sustaining Biodiversity
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Chapter 9: Sustaining Biodiversity: Saving Species and Ecosystem Services
Chapter 10: Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity: Saving Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services
Chapter 11: Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Unit IV: Sustaining Natural Resources
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Chapter 12: Food Production and the Environment
Chapter 13: Water Resources
Chapter 14: Nonrenewable Mineral Resources
Chapter 15: Nonrenewable Energy
Chapter 16: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Unit V: Sustaining Environmental Quality
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Chapter 17: Environmental Hazards and Human Health
Chapter 18: Air Pollution
Chapter 19: Climate Disruption
Chapter 20: Water Pollution
Chapter 21: Solid and Hazardous Waste
Chapter 22: Urbanization and Sustainability
Unit VI: Sustaining Human Societies
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Chapter 23: Economics, Environment, and Sustainability
Chapter 24: Politics, Environment, and Sustainability
Chapter 25: Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability
Chemistry
First Week Stuff
Matter
Circulation of the Atmosphere and Ocean
Vocabulary
Circulation of the Atmosphere
air mass
atmosphere
atmospheric circulation cell
Bjerknes, Vilhelm
climate
convection current
Coriolis, Gaspard Gustave de
Coriolis effect
cyclone
doldrums
extratropical cyclone
Ferrel cell
front
frontal storm
geographical equator
Hadley cell
heat budget
horse latitudes
hurricane
intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ)
land breeze
meteorological equator
monsoon
nor'easter (northeaster)
polar cell
polar front
precipitation
sea breeze
storm
storm surge
thermal equilibrium
tornado
trade winds
tropical cyclone
water vapor
weather
westerlies
wind
Circulation of the Ocean
acoustical tomography
Anarctic Bottom Water
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
caballing
coastal upwelling
contour current
convergence zone
countercurrent
current
downwelling
eastern boundary current
eddy
Ekman spiral
Ekman transport
El Nino
ENSO
equatorial upwelling
float method
flow method
geostrophic gyre
Gulf Stream
gyre
La Nina
Langmuir curculation
North Atlantic Deep Water
Southern Oscillation
surface current
sverdrup (sv)
temperature-salinity (T-S diagram
thermohaline circulation
transverse current
undercurrent
upwelling
western boundary current
westward intensification
West Wind Drift
wind-induced vertical circulation
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1 Ocean Currents and Global Weather
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2 Upwelling and El Nino
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