MEMORIZATION TIPS:

MNEMONIC DEVICES and other ways to remember things for the APES Exam

Let's face it - sometimes you need to find creative ways to remember information, concepts, and processes.  

There are many ways to remember complex things in simpler ways.  Here are some ideas that might work for you:

 

(This MEMORIZATION DOCUMENT is an ongoing list of all the ways we have come up with to remember things easier and explanations!)

 

• ZONATION OF PONDS & LAKES - LITTle Leaguers Play Baseball

• LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY - HIPCO

• SOCIETAL IMPACTS ON EARTH'S RESOURCES - I = PAT

• GEOLOGIC TIME - MOST GENERAL TO MOST SPECIFIC - EeyOre ERASed Pooh's ExamPaper Answers

• GEOLOGIC TIME PERIODS - OLDEST TO MOST RECENT - PREgnant CAMels ORDinarily Sit Down CARefully, PERhaps Their Joints CREak, Probably Not QUietly

• 5 (+1) MAJOR EXTINCTIONS ON EARTH - OLDEST TO MOST RECENT - ORthodontic DEntists PERManently TRy CREating Alignment

• SOIL HORIZONS - Orange Apes Eat Banana Coated Rocks

• TYPES OF COAL - PEte LIkes SUper Big ANTlers

• LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE - TRy STinky MEat, THEn Eggs

• 6 PRIMARY POLLUTANTS - ChampiOn LEAD VOCalist PARTy MAniac Never Sleeps

• 6 MOST IMPORTANT EARTH ELEMENTS - “CHNOPS”

• ELEMENTS THAT DO NOT HAVE A GASEOUS FORM - CaMP K

• METRIC UNITS - KIng HEnry Died By Drinking Chocolate MILk