Final Exam

Question 1

_____ Energy Impact Spatter is usually associated with a ____ type crime.

Answer 1

Medium/beating

Question 2

There __ size ____ between, Low, Medium and High Energy blood spatter.

Answer 2

is/overlap

Question 3

___ Energy Blood spatter is the result of an energy or force greater than ___ __ per second.

Answer 3

High/100 feet

Question 4

Bloodstain evidence is a ______ phenomenon, which has been shown through repeated _____ in the discipline.

Answer 4

reproducible/research

Question 5

The ____ end or ____ end of a ____ bloodstain will point in the _____ it was traveling.

Answer 5

pointed/tapered/Parent/ direction

Question 6

The analyst can often determine which ___ the blows were struck with in a ____ scene by looking at the ___-___ patterns.

Answer 6

hand/beating/cast-off

Question 7

An individual blood drop in ___ ___ is in the shape of a ___ during most of the fall.
This is the direct result of a phenomenon known as s____ ___.

Answer 7

free fall/ sphere/surface tension

Question 8

___ ____, in a normal environment, will travel approximately _’ at _____ in a ______ plane.

Answer 8

back spatter/ 4’/ maximum/horizontal

Question 9

____ blood is not only associated with a _____ occurrence but with ____ blood, explosion and ___ ___ machinery.

Answer 9

misting/gunshot/expectorant/high speed

Question 10

Two examples of __ Energy Bloodstains would be ___ ___ and ___ blood ____.

Answer 10

low/blood drips/ passive/ flows

Question 11

The ___ in a bloodstain will be identified by the short __ and long ___.

Answer 11

ellipse/axis

Question 12

An __-degree bloodstain will be _____ as a 90-degree bloodstain and it will have the blood volume pulled to the ____ ___ of the stain by ___.

Answer 12

80/misidentified/bottom half/ gravity

Question 13

To locate the point/area of _____ you need to draw a ___ line through the ___ ___ of several well formed bloodstains

Answer 13

convergence/straight/long axis

Question 14

A 90-degree bloodstain will have a ____ to ____ ratio of :.

Answer 14

length to width/ 1:1

Question 15

____ _____ was thought by many to be the modern day ___ of bloodstain analyst.

Answer 15

Herbert MacDonell/ father

Question 16

___ ___ worked on the ___ ____ Case.

Answer 16

Paul Kirk/ Sam Sheppard

Question 17

The d___ of ___ taken by a droplet in relation to a t___ can also be called
___ ____.

Answer 17

direction of travel/target/Flight path

Question 18

A blood flow created by ___ alone, with no _____ action involved is ___ ____.

Answer 18

gravity/ circulatory/passive flow

Question 19

A stain created when an object moves through a __-____ bloodstain on another surface is a ___.

Answer 19

pre-existing/ wipe

Question 20

The ____ of blood onto a target by a ___ object that is bloodstained is a ____.

Answer 20

transfer/moving/swipe

Question 21

In s____ ___ bloodstains a red flag (caution) might go up if all of the strings in the 2-d come back to a ____.

Answer 21

/stringing/angled/pinpoint

Question 22

Your goal in identifying an ____ is to identify a range of ____ and _____.

Answer 22

origin/possible/ impossible

Question 23

The ___ History of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis dates back to the ___’s.

Answer 23

written/1800’s

Question 24

P_____ arcs are affected by the ____ of the droplet and ___ ___.

Answer 24

parabolic/volume/resistance

Question 25

The factors that directly affect ____ blood spatter’s ____ flight path are a__ ____, ____ and ___.

Answer 25

misting/horizontal/air resistance/gravity/energy

Question 26

In order to make some determination as to what happened to produce ___ bloodstains the analyst will study the following: D____, ____, ___, and n___ of the spatter.

Answer 26

static/dispersion/shape/size/number

Question 27

In some instances it is possible to include or exclude a ___ as possibly making a __-___ ___ by the __ of the bloodstains and the ___ of the blood ____.

Answer 27

weapon/cast-off trail/size/width/trail

Question 28

In order to ____ a bloodstain to identify the i___ a__ you need to identify what within the bloodstain?- the true ____.

Answer 28

measure/impact angle/ellipse

Question 29

You might be able to determine the _____ an individual blood drop fell if you know the v____ of the blood ___.

Answer 29

distance/volume/drip

Question 30

When blood is dripped into ___ ____ on the floor very close to a __, the S___ pattern creates a “_” pattern on the wall.

Answer 30

wet blood/wall/satellite/V/

Question 31

A “___” type pattern tends to be associated with ____.

Answer 31

splash/staging/

Question 32

The simulated ____ ___ spurt leaves a ___ on the floor that begins approximately at the ___ and leads to the i____ ___.

Answer 32

horizontal/arterial/trail/origin/impact site/

Question 33

If the scene has a lot of blood ___ and ___-___ stain ___ you would expect the ___ to possibly have some spatter and cast-off stains on them.

Answer 33

spatter/cast-off/trails/attacker

Question 34

If you find __-___ bloodstain trails on the ___ they tend to indicate that ___ ___was used.

Answer 34

cast-off/ceiling/ blunt force/

Question 35

When a ___ has been hit multiple times in the same area with o_______ w____ the most accurate method of identifying the ___ of wounds is the ___ of __-__ bloodstain t____.

Answer 35

head/overlapping wounds/number/ number/cast-off/ trails

Question 36

In __-__ ___ you can identify the _____ number of blows struck.

Answer 36

cast-off trails/ minimum/

Question 37

The ___ impact to a person’s head ___ ___ produce ___-___.

Answer 37

first/will not/cast-off

Question 38

In the ___ __ experiment sometimes you can include or exclude a ___ as causing a __ ____ ___.

Answer 38

cast-off/ weapon/cast-off trail

Question 39

In the cast-off experiment you can sometimes tell which ___ swung the weapon and ___ the attacker based on __-___ stains.

Answer 39

hand/position/90-degree

Question 40

The best bloodstains stains to use for _____ in the ____ ____ experiment are ___ on the ___ surface

Answer 40

reconstruction/mouse trap/spatter/horizontal

Question 41

The s___ of the blood spatter from the m___ ___ tends to be ____ in size from a ___ vs. ___ ___.

Answer 41

size/mouse trap/smaller/slam/free fall

Question 42

The ____ ___ experiment is intended to simulate ___ energy impact and ___ ____ such as a beating.

Answer 42

mouse trap/medium/blunt trauma/

Question 43

The _____ of a bloodstain dropped onto a clean piece of glass tends to _____ in diameter as the _____ increases and ____ in diameter as the ____ decreases.

Answer 43

diameter/increase/distance/
decreases/distance/

Question 44

The ____ vs. d___ blood drop experiments shows that you need to consider the ____ the drop lands on.

Answer 44

diameter/distance/substrate/

Question 45

The _____ number of well formed bloodstains that are recommended to identify a p___/___ of ___ is _.

Answer 45

minimum/point/area of origin/4

Question 46

The best ___ for producing __-____ bloodstains include, s___, n___, ___ and ___.

Answer 46

surface/well-formed/
smooth/nonporous/dry/clean

Question 47

In order to identify a p___/___ of ___ for a ___ of bloodstains you would need to know if the bloodstains are :
well ___,
if it was produced by a ____ ____ impact,
if there is more than __ ____.

Answer 47

point/area of origin/group/
formed/medium velocity/one occurrence

Question 48

The ___/___ of ___ give a range like __ to __” from the floor, not an ___ ___ like 17 13/16” from the ___.

Answer 48

point/area of origins/ 17 to 18’‘/exact height/ floor