This act is the first "S" in the "Seven S's of Crime Scene Investigation."
What is Securing the Scene?
100
The act of observing is noting information received by our senses, while this process involves making conclusions based on those observations.
What is inference?
100
Small, smooth pollen grains are most likely dispersed by this method, while larger, sticky or barbed pollen grains are dispersed by this other method.
What are wind and animals?
100
Toxicology is the study of these substances.
What are poisons?
100
The broadest classification of fingerprints includes these three patterns.
What are loops, arches, and whorls?
200
This type of evidence narrows down the identity of a suspect to a group of people, but not a specific person.
What is class evidence?
200
If you are answering this question correctly, the information you studied was processed from short-term memory to here.
What is long-term memory?
200
These three terms refer to the three layers that make up the hair shaft.
What is the medulla, the cortex, and the cuticle?
200
This term refers specifically to the projectile propelled from a firearm.
What is the bullet?
200
True or False: Fingerprints are considered individual evidence.
What is true?
300
This type of evidence is known as indirect evidence: it can be used to imply a fact, but not actually prove it.
What is circumstantial evidence?
300
This is about how long we hold information in our short-term, or "working," memory.
Was is about 20 seconds?
300
Fibers that come from animal, plants, or minerals are known as these types of fibers.
What are natural fibers?
300
This pattern of indentations is created on a bullet by the lands and grooves found inside a firearm's barrel.
What is the rifling pattern?
300
This gangster, among the FBI's first "Public Enemies," was also among the first to try and permanently alter his fingerprints.
Who is John Dillinger? (And was he successful?)
400
The idea that trace evidence may be exchanged among a suspect, victim, and even the crime scene is known as this principle.
What is Locard's Principle of Exchange?
400
In spite of being often mistaken or faulty, these accounts are usually among the most persuasive given during a trial.
What are eyewitness accounts?
400
Rayon is made by modifying cellulose, a material made by plants, so it is called this type of fiber.
What is a regenerated fiber?
400
A victim found with bright, cherry-red blood may have died by ingesting this poison, which is naturally produced in a variety of nuts and seeds.
What is cyanide?
400
These types of prints need to be enhanced, otherwise they remain invisible.
What are latent prints?
500
The location where Craig Rideout's body was discovered in Yates County is referred to as this because the original crime took place somewhere else.
What is the secondary crime scene?
500
This fictional detective, introduced in 1887, not only popularized crime investigation stories, but also inspired much of forensic science as we know it.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
500
The assemblage of pollen grains found in a geographic area at a particular time of year is known as a ________.
What is a "pollen fingerprint"?
500
This term refers to the study of a projectile in flight, not the identification of the gun itself.
What is ballistics?
500
Using this chemical to enhance a fingerprint left on a piece of paper will result in a visible, purple print.