Fingerprint Analysis

Question 1

Crime scene search must use __________________ search patterns

Answer 1

Systematic

Question 2

The scientific process of fingerprint matching

Answer 2

ACEV

Question 3

Evidence transfer is defined by __________________’smexchange principle

Answer 3

Locard

Question 4

The application of scientific techniques to legal processes

Answer 4

Forensic science

Question 5

Innermost position of loop ridges

Answer 5

Core

Question 6

The least common ridge pattern

Answer 6

Arch

Question 7

A print collected from a crime scene

Answer 7

Latent

Question 8

Primary ridges are __________________and therefore useful in forensic science

Answer 8

Unique

Question 9

The post on the ridge nearest the centre of the divergence of types of lines, absent in arch patterns

Answer 9

Delta

Question 10

Fingerprints are __________________ and unchanging

Answer 10

Permanent

Question 11

Primary crime scenes are defined by their __________________ location

Answer 11

Physical

Question 12

The first step in the fingerprint identification process

Answer 12

Analysis

Question 13

Evidence can be __________________ or direct

Answer 13

Circumstantial

Question 14

Patterns on __________________ can be transferred on contact

Answer 14

Skin

Question 15

Information that supports a fact or proposition

Answer 15

Evidence

Question 16

Scene of crime officers __________________ the crime scene

Answer 16

Process

Question 17

Secured crime scenes help evidence be __________________

Answer 17

Preserved

Question 18

Documenting a scene involves notes, videotaping, __________________ and sketching a scene

Answer 18

Photographing

Question 19

Most evidence is found in the __________________ zone

Answer 19

Hot

Question 20

Evidence can be used to __________________ a scene with people or objects

Answer 20

Link

Question 21

The layer of skin where ridge patterns form in utero

Answer 21

Dermis

Question 22

One of three types of evidence

Answer 22

Trace