Types of Fingerprints
Fingerprint Specialists
Vocabulary
Equipment
Techniques to Finding Prints
100
The most common fingerprint type in the world with a"spiral" shape.
What is a loop fingerprint?
100
An income of $47,000.
What is the salary of a fingerprint specialist in one year?
100
A print that is blurred.
What is a smudged print?
100
Plastic coverings that go over your hand to make sure the fingerprint specialists don't leave their own fingerprints at the crime scene.
What are gloves?
100
Taking tape and using it to pick up the print.
What is lifting?
200
The second most common type of fingerprint, where the ridges form a circular shape.
What is a whorl fingerprint?
200
4 years of college, or 2 years with a major in forensic science.
What is the amount of years of education you need to become a fingerprint specialist?
200
Raised lines on the tip of your finger that create your fingerprints.
What are ridges?
200
A tool that helps the specialists see all the details in the fingerprint.
What is a magnifier?
200
A chemical used on soft materials to get the fingerprint off, and to see it better.
What is ninhydrin?
300
A fingerprint where the ridges form a single bump or wave.
What is an arch fingerprint?
300
Burglaries, murder, rape, forgery, or anything with a latent print.
What are cases fingerprint specialists work on?
300
A non complete print.
What is a partial print?
300
A tool that uses UV light to make the fingerprints glow.
What is a crime scope?
300
Using fumes to find invisible prints.
What is fuming?
400
A fingerprint where the pattern is a whorl in the loop.
What is an accidental loop?
400
25-30 cases.
What is the amount of cases fingerprint specialists work on in one day?
400
The areas between the ridges of your fingerprint.
What are grooves?
400
A tool whose fumes make invisible prints visible to the human eye.
What is super glue?
400
Spreading a dark powder on a surface at a crime scene. It sticks to the sweat and oils in the print, making it visible.
What is dusting?
500
A fingerprint where the loops open up on the side closest to the second finger.
What is an ulnar loop?
500
10,270 specialists.
What is the total amount of fingerprint specialists in the USA?
500
When your finger touches something, such as paint, that leaves a clear print.
What is an impressed print?
500
A chemical that is used to get fingerprints off from soft, absorbent surfaces, like paper and clothing.
What is ninhydrin?
500
Raising fingerprints from unusual surfaces (such as smooth stone and brick) and surfaces that have been under water.
What is SPR or "Small particle reagent"?
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