Lab Safety/Nature of Science
Careers, History, Ethics
Legal Matters
Crime Scene Investigation
Potpourri
100
This is what you do if something breaks or spill in the lab.
What is contact the teacher immediately?
100
This is the system of identification that uses a series of measurements to identify a person.
What is anthropometry?
100
This type of evidence is associated with a group and never a single source.
What is class evidence?
100
The possession and location of all physical evidence is tracked at all times using this.
What is the chain of custody?
100
These should be worn during every lab, unless the teacher instructs your differently.
What are goggles?
200
Holding a chemical level but away from your nose and waving your hand as you inhale is called this.
What is wafting?
200
This type of job includes identifying and/or comparing physical evidence through chemical, physical, and instrumental analysis
What is a trace evidence examiner?
200
This is the name for the legal process that determines whether or not a person should be indicted and stand trial for a crime.
What is grand jury?
200
These are the three main types of crime scene recording.
What are sketching, photography, and note-taking?
200
Science is the study of this.
What is natural phenomena?
300
This is the sheet that gives you information about how to properly handle a chemical.
What is a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)?
300
If a dead body was found with beetle larva in the mouth, this forensic specialist would be called into determine the time of death.
What is a Forensic Entomologist?
300
This amendment gives a defendant the right to a "speedy" trial.
What is the 6th amendment?
300
These are types of containers that should NEVER be used to hold trace evidence.
What are mailing envelopes?
300
This person examines bodily fluids and organs to determine the presence of drugs and poisons.
What is a forensic toxicologist?
400
This is the variable that you change in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
400
This person invented the system of anthropometry.
What is Alphonse Bertillion?
400
This is thought that questioned scientific procedures or principals must be "generally accepted" by a majority of scientific community.
What is the Frye Standard?
400
It is imperative that a crime scene search must be these two things.
What is thorough and systematic?
400
This states that two objects that come in contact exchange material.
What is the Locard Exchange Principle?
500
Under this section of the MSDS you can find how stable or reactive a substance is.
What is Section 10?
500
This person created the first test for detecting arsenic in corpses.
Who is Carl Wilhelm Scheele?
500
These are three of the five qualifications to be considered an "expert witness".
What are knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education?
500
This is the the main prerequisite (and condition) for a crime scene to be properly photographed.
What is an unaltered state?
500
This is the two-part reason that forensic science is a significant element in both criminal and civil court matters?
What is it can both link or exonerate a suspect?
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