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Date November 2017 Marks available [Maximum mark: 1] Reference code 17N.3.HL.TZ0.15a.i
Level HL Paper 3 Time zone TZ0
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17N.3.HL.TZ0.15a.i

Wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) once inhabited most forested areas of North America. As an important food source for early European settlers, the population of M. gallopavo seriously decreased. Due to recent conservation efforts, population numbers are increasing.

[Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_wild_turkey_in_Middleboro,_Massachusetts.jpg]

The curve shows a population of M. gallopavo from 2000 to 2015 in Ohio in the mid-western USA.

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State the range of years when exponential growth of the M. gallopavo population occurred.

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2000–2008

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