Vocabulary Terms
A center of a loop or whorl
What is the CORE?
The 3 common fingerprint patterns
What is Arches Loops Whorls?
Some experts claim that fingerprint identification is__________.
What is flawless?
a hidden fingerprint made visible through the use of powders or other techniques
What is latent fingerprint?
A triangular ridge pattern with ridges that go in different directions above and below a triangle
What is DELTA?
Fingerprint characteristics are mainly classified based on
What are ridge patterns?
Full name of IAFIS
What is Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System?
a fingerprint that happens when fingers with blood, ink, or some other substance on them touch a surface and transfer the pattern of their fingerprint to the surface
What is visible fingerprint?
A combination of details in the shapes and position of ridges in fingerprints that make each unique; also called a ridge
What is MINUTIAE?
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern originates from one side of the print and leaves from the other side
What is ARCH?
Software that helps narrow down possible matches
What is IAFIS or AFIS?
3 kinds of fingerprints found by investigators
What are visible, plastic, and latent?
The recognizable pattern of the ridges found in the end joints of the fingers that form lines on the surface of objects in a fingerprint
What is RIDGE PATTERN?
What type of fingerprint does the highest percentage (65%) of the population have?
What are loops?
Software which provides a match instantaneously
What is non-existent?
a three-dimensional fingerprint made in soft material such as clay, soap, or putty
What is a plastic fingerprint?
A form used to record and preserve a person's fingerprints
What is TEN CARD?
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern flows inward and returns in the direction of the origin.
What is a LOOP?
Fingerprint technologies cannot do the following without the human fingerprint examiner
What is make a final match?
Two ways a latent finger print can be lifted
What is... 1. Dusting with powders (carbon, magnetic, metallic) 2. Exposing to reactive chemicals?