It is much easier to determine the age of subadult because they have not stopped this.
What is growing.
100
The number of lumbar vertebrae in the human skeleton, typically.
What is 5.
100
The term used to describe injuries/fractures/bone damage at or around the time of death.
What is Perimortem?
100
The type of trauma characterized by lower energy and slower impacts the cause the bone to bend.
What is Blunt Force Trauma?
100
The direction that you should identify and label on your map.
What is North?
200
The type of aging commonly used estimate the age of fetal humans and becomes less reliable after birth.
What is Long Bone Length?
200
This bone makes up your forehead and upper eye orbits.
What is the frontal bone?
200
The amount of time that elapses between death and discovery of remains.
What is PMI (postmortem interval)?
200
Fall from high places are considered this type of trauma.
What is Blunt Force Trauma?
200
The name of the permanent landmark that is used to establish the location of a crime scene in a field recovery.
What is a Datum?
300
The name of the area where the sacrum articulates with the innominates (os coxae) that is commonly used to age adults.
What is the Auricular Surface?
300
This is the largest bone in your body.
What is the Femur?
300
This is the change to the bone due to any skeletal stress.
What is Pathology?
300
The characteristic of a bone that has sustained a gunshot wound that can be helpful in determining direction of the shot.
What is beveling?
300
The four tools that you needed to properly measure the location of each bone.
What are Tape Measures?
400
The least reliable of the adult aging techniques because factors like genetics and pathology can affect the structures.
What is Cranial Suture Closure?
400
This is the bone that lies laterally in the lower arm, when in anatomical position.
What is the radius?
400
This is the number of years that a person must be dead in order for the case to be considered non-forensic.
What is 50 years?
400
The type of trauma that occurs when objects moving at a high rate of speed impart their energy so suddenly that bone reacts by shattering.
What is High Velocity Trauma?
400
The bone found in association with the articulated pelvis and the reason that many assumed that it was a female.
What is a fetal skull?
500
The name of the areas of unossified bone in a child's skull. A fontanel is an example.
What are Ossification Centers?
500
The innominate (or os coxae) is composed of these three bones.
What are the pubis, ilium, and ischium?
500
This is the field of study that examines insects from a body to estimate the postmortem interval.
What is Forensic Entomology?
500
The type of trauma sometimes referred to as Blunt Force Trauma, but is usually separated into its own category because of the specialized instruments that create it.
What is Sharp Force Trauma?
500
This formula is used to create a perfect square in the field.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem? [A(squared) + B(squared) = C (squared)]