Bugs and Dead Things

Question 1

the study of insects and other arthropods is called?

Answer 1

Entomology

Question 2

———— mortis refers to the cooling rate of the body after death.

Answer 2

Algor

Question 3

—– mortis refers to the pooling of blood in the body after death.

Answer 3

Livor

Question 4

——- mortis refers to the rigidity of the skeletal muscles after death.

Answer 4

Rigor

Question 5

The stiffening of muscles that occurs from approximately two to thirty hours after death is called:

Answer 5

Rigor Mortis

Question 6

Which of the following does NOT affect rigor?
a) environmental temperature
b) dehydration of the body
c) the use of body muscles prior to death
d) all of these affect rigor

Answer 6

All of these affect rigor (D)

Question 7

The rate of cooling of the body after death is called:

Answer 7

Algor Mortis

Question 8

Generally, the body cool at a rate of about:

Answer 8

1 to 1/2 degrees per hour

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a factor in how much the body cools after death?
a) the temperature of the environment
b) the type of clothing on the body
c) the food consumed by the body
d) body mass

Answer 9

the food consumed by the body (c)

Question 10

Livor mortis first becomes fixed after:

Answer 10

12 hours

Question 11

Blow flies and flesh flies usually arrive an hour after a body dies.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

Environmental temperatures and conditions will affect insect development.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Burn victims attract flies more quickly

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Brain cells deprived of oxygen die in 15 minutes.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

The Glaister equation is most accurate within the first 12 hours after death.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Livor Mortis shows up on the skin as a greenish color.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Livor Mortis can help determine if a body has been moved.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

An instar is a stage of the larval development of an insect.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

All insects have the same number of instar stages to the larval development.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

All insects undergo complete metamorphosis.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Insects develop into adults from the larval stage.

Answer 21

False

Question 22

Flies and beetles are the two most common orders of insects found on corpses.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Beetles are generally nocturnal.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Spiders are arthropods.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

A toxicologist may use the maggots to obtain information about drugs in a deceased body.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

A maggot mass will show a decreased temperature in the area where they are concentrated.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

In order to be a forensic entomologist you must be board certified.

Answer 27

False

Question 28

DNA can be obtained from insects.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

The ovipositor is found on a male insect.

Answer 29

False

Question 30

Most beetles would be considered necrophagous.

Answer 30

False

Question 31

The first visible sign of putrefaction is a blue-purple cast to the skin.

Answer 31

False

Question 32

Maggots are larval stages of some insects.

Answer 32

True

Question 33

The outer covering of some insects is referred to as an exoskeleton.

Answer 33

True

Question 34

Rigor begins with the larger muscles of the body.

Answer 34

False

Question 35

Since children are smaller than adults, their bodies will hold the heat longer after death.

Answer 35

False

Question 36

Livor Mortis can help determine if a body has been moved.

Answer 36

True

Question 37

Once rigor sets in it never leaves the body.

Answer 37

False