Introduction and Misc.
History
Explosives
Drugs
Wildlife contraband and human trafficking
100
Term for an unintentional act of nature.
What is a hazard?
100
These events of the 1970s led to required passenger screenings at all U.S. airports.
What are plane hijackings?
100
This must be confined in order to explode.
What is a low explosive?
100
Nitazenes and designer benzodiazepines are examples of these.
What are novel psychoactive substances (NPS)?
100
Most useful wildlife contraband detection tools.
Canine detection or Imaging
200
Combines conventional explosive with radioactive material.
What is a dirty bomb or Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD)?
200
The Department of Homeland Security was created following this event?
What is 9/11?
200
TATP and HMTD are both examples of this.
What is a homemade explosive? (would also except primary explosive.
200
The Gupta method refers to this.
What is a common method of fentanyl synthesis?
200
Analyte in human breath that can be measured to determine the presence of concealed humans.
What is carbon dioxide?
300
Sarin gas is san example of this.
What is a chemical weapon? (Also will accept Nerve Agent)
300
The primary detection technology used for explosive trace detectors (ETDs).
What is ion mobility spectrometry (IMS)?
300
A mechanical blending of an oxidizer and a fuel to produce a mixture that can produce an explosion.
What is an explosive mixture?
300
Bath salts are an example of this drug classification.
What are synthetic cathinones?
300
What type of sensing technology is referenced in the image below?
What is a radar sensor?
400
This entity is responsible for the response efforts following a nuclear or radiological attack.
What is FEMA?
400
Canine detection teams began to be regularly used by U.S. Customs Services, police work and the U.S. military in this decade.
What is the 1970s?
400
Two of the three basic characteristics of an explosive.
What are instability, causes a rapid release of heat and gases, decomposes rapidly?
400
This drug is being increasingly seized at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months.
What is methamphetamine?
400
This imaging technology is used to screen large trucks, trains, and cargo containers for wildlife contraband.
What is x-ray backscatter?
500
Below is an example of this.
What is a ROC curve?
500
This event in 2001 led to addition increased person screening methods for air travelers.
What is the attempted shoe bomber?
500
A material that has both a legal and an illicit use.
What is a dual-use material?
500
Heroin and fentanyl are both opioids. This is the major difference in their processing.
What is one is extracted from a plant and the other is synthesized?
500
Device used in thermal imaging of smuggled humans.
What is a long-wave infrared camera?