Inferences and Observations
The name of using your five senses when analyzing a crime.
What is observation.
The person whos writing matched the shopping list at the DMCS crime scene.
What is Ms. Wyman.
The variables in an experiment that stay the same.
What is the controlled variables.
The four types of fingerprints.
What is loop, whorl, arch, and composite.
Ms. Wyman had red dirt on the soles of her shoes when she returned to class. What can you infer?
What is she was teaching PE on the baseball diamond.
An example of physical/forensic evidence.
What is blood, hair, DNA, fingerprints, fibre, etc.
The variable in an experiment that you change.
What is manipulated variable.
When you take a sample of a fingerprint.
What is lifting a fingerprint.
Mrs. Korolis and Ms. Wyman were at the movies together. Mrs. Korolis' favourite candy bar is a Snickers. Ms. Wyman's favourite candy bar is a KitKat. When they left the theatre, there was a small piece of red wrapper left on a seat. What can you infer? (2 things)
What is Ms. Wyman left a piece of wrapper from her KitKat, and she was sitting in the seat it was found on.
"Mrs. Saliani was seen marking tests in her classroom at 4:00pm". (The kind of evidence)
What is circumstantial evidence.
The responding variable.
What is what you see happening as a result of the change.
A fingerprint with no delta.
What is an arch.
The movement that leaves a distinguishable heal-toe print of the shoe and has a shorter stride length.
What is walking.
The type of evidence that leaves a "paper trail" behind.
What is hard (factual) evidence.
The responding variable in the chromatography experiment.
What is the separation of the ink (the colour change).
A fingerprint with two or more deltas.
What is a whorl.
The recognizable pattern of different types of shoes (ie. Vans, Vessi's, Converse, etc.).
What is a distinguishing characteristic.
The names of the three types of evidence.
What is physical (forensic), hard (factual) and circumstantial.
The controlled, manipulated, and responding variables in the chromatography experiment.
What is controlled: the paper filter, the amount of water, the time, the colour of the marker (black)
What is manipulated: the type of marker
What is responding: the separation of ink (the colour changing)
The two main categories of fingerprints at a crime scene.
What is latent and visible.