the place where bodies are placed in various conditions and allowed to decompose to determine time of death.
What is "the body farm"?
100
This is the age that all 3 cranial sutures are closed in females.
What is 50 or >50 years old?
100
The body cools at this rate per hour.
What is 1 to 1 1/2 degrees F per hour?
100
These 2 bones make up the leg of a body.
What is a femur and a tibia?
100
An anomaly found in skeletal remains can lead to discovering this about the body.
What is the identity of the body?
200
the study of bones is called what?
What is osteology?
200
This feature of a pelvis determines that it is male.
What is a pubic angle of 90 degrees or less?
200
This is the name for the rate of cooling of a body after death.
What is algor mortis?
200
Use the equation below to determine the height in feet and inches of a body with a 41 cm. femur bone.
Height = (femur length X 1.88) + 81.3
What is 5'2.4" or 5'2" ?
200
In the lab "Hot air, cold body", this substance is used to simulate the body.
What is the water in the test tube?
300
The person who specializes in skeletal remains and provides identification information on badly decomposed remains.
What is an anthropologist?
300
These skull features determine that the body is female. Give 3.
What is round orbits, v-shaped jaws, thinner brow ridges, no occipital protuberance, high and rounded frontal bone, smooth skull, and jaw angle > 90 degrees.
300
This is the name to describe the settling of blood in the body after death.
What is livor mortis?
300
These long bones can be used to determine height.
What is femur, humerus, tibia, and radius?
300
This equipment sends out radio waves that bounce back to show an image of bones or a body.
What is ground penetrating radar?
400
This person may do an autopsy if he is a medical doctor.
What is a coroner?
400
These 3 are used to determine the gender of a body.
What is skull features, the pubic angle of the pelvis, and the relative size of the bones?
400
Police find a body with an internal temperature of 76.4'F . It is what temperature to the touch and has what stiffness?
What is cold and stiff?
400
Mongoloids have these skull features.
What is a more rounded teardrop nasal aperture and wider zygomatic arches?
400
These are 3 effects that influence algor mortis.
What is air movement, size of individual, temperature of the surrounding environment, type of clothing, wetness of clothing, and layers of clothing?
500
Career of the person who determines the time of death.
What is a pathologist?
500
Age of skeletal remains can be determined by examining these 4.
What is the growth plates or epiphysis, teeth, pubic symphysis and cranial sutures?
500
Use the glasier equation to determine the time since death for a body with an internal temperature of 90.4'F.
What is 5.3 hours? 98.4 - 90.4/ 1.5 = 5.3hrs.
500
Caucasoids have these skull features.
What is long, narrow, teardrop nasal aperture and narrow zygomatic arches?
500
Police find a 35cm humerus bone. Use the following equation to determine the height of the individual in feet and inches.
Height = (humerus X 2.9) + 70.6