Forensic Sciences
This is the science that deals with the motion, behavior and effects of projectiles, namely bullets in forensic sciences.
What is ballistics?
This is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year.
What is a light year?
Air does this as it heats up.
What is expands?
This is the table typically associated with the study of chemistry.
What is the Periodic Table of Elements?
This is a medical instrument for listening to the action of someone's heart or breathing.
What is a stethoscope?
This is the study of insects as related to the time of death.
What is forensic entomology?
This is the blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
This is an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different regions.
What is a watershed?
This is a chemical substance that is present at the start of a chemical reaction.
What is a reactant?
This is a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation that is often used by doctors to produce images of the body, its organs, and other internal structures for diagnostic purposes.
What is an X-ray?
This is the determination of drug use, poisoning, or exposure to toxic substances as part a legal investigation.
What is forensic toxicology?
This is a group of stars that form a pattern in the sky and is constructed for mnemonic aid.
What is a constellation?
This is a substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals.
What is a pesticide?
These are the particles of the nucleus that have no charge.
What are the neutrons?
These scans provide detailed cross-sectional images of the body that are more in-depth and expansive than regular X-rays.
What are CT (computed tomography) scans?
This is the examination of bite marks and dental identification of corpses.
What is forensic odontology?
This is the part of a black hole that is the boundary beyond which events cannot affect an observer.
What is the event horizon?
This is the simultaneous cultivation or exploitation of several crops or kinds of animals.
What is polyculture?
This element has the atomic symbol of Au on the periodic table.
What is gold?
The abbreviation of this term is MRI. It refers to a medical tool used to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body.
What is magnetic resonance imaging?
This central principle of forensic sciences states that when two objects come in contact with each other, traces of each are exchanged.
What is the Locard Exchange Principle?
This is an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator.
What is the meridian?
This is fuel from organic matter that can be from plant, manure/dung, or wood.
What is biomass?
These are the electrons that are in the highest energy level of an atom and that are involved in chemical reactions.
What are valence electrons?
This is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical purposes, namely surgeries.
What is anesthesia?