Vocabulary Terms
Characteristics of Fingerprints
Fingerprinting Technology
Collecting Fingerprints
100
A center of a loop or whorl
What is CORE
100
What are the 3 types of fingerprints?
What is... Arches Loops Whorls
100

Some experts claim that fingerprint identification is__________.

What is flawless?

100
a hidden fingerprint made visible through the use of powders or other techniques
What is latent fingerprint.
200
A triangular ridge pattern with ridges that go in different directions above and below a triangle
What is DELTA
200
What characteristics are fingerprints named for?
What is General visual appearance and patterns.
200

Full name of IAFIS

What is Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System?

200
a visible 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 patent fingerprint.
300
A combination of details in the shapes and position of ridges in fingerprints that make each unique; also called a ridge
What is MINUTIAE
300
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern originates from one side of the print and leaves from the other side
What is ARCH.
300

Software that helps narrow down possible matches

What is IAFIS or AFIS?

300
What are the 3 kinds of fingerprints found by investigators?
What is patent, plastic, and latent.
400
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
400
What type of fingerprint does the highest percentage (65%) of the population have?
What is loops.
400

Software which provides a match instantaneously

What is non-existent? That which does not exist...yet?

400
a three-dimensional fingerprint made in soft material such as clay, soap, or putty
What is plastic fingerprint.
500
A form used to record and preserve a person's fingerprints
What is TEN CARD
500
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern flows inward and returns in the direction of the origin.
What is LOOP.
500

Fingerprint technologies cannot do the following without the human fingerprint examiner

What is make a final match?

500
What are the two ways a latent finger print can be lifted?
What is... 1. Dusting with powders (carbon, magnetic, metallic) 2. Dripping with reactive chemicals
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