Thinking Skills
Footprints
Fingerprints
Other Evidence
Ink and Writing Analysis
100
An educated guess as to what happened
What is an inference?
100
The size of a footprint can be a good indication of this unless you are examining younger people.
What is the height of a person?
100

Invisible prints are called...

What is latent prints?

100

Using characteristics like weave pattern and flammability

What is fabric analysis?

100
3 characteristics of a persons writing that can be analyzed
What is line quality, spacing, ratio of height width and size, pen lifts and separations, connecting strokes, beginning and ending strokes, unusual letter formation, pen pressure, slant, baseline habits, flourishes or embellishments, placement of diacritics (t's or i's)?
200
When the scientist uses his/her senses to record what is happening in an experiment.
What is an observation?
200

Depth of tracks can indicate this

What is weight of a person?

200
Dividing prints into loop, whorl, arch, or composite
What is categorizing prints?
200

Anything plant or animal found in a soil sample

What is organic?

200

This is the spacing and layout of letters and words on the page

What is arrangement?

300

"The crying boy was sitting on the ground beside his blue bike" is an example of...

What is an observation?

300
A footprint characteristic that can tell you whether the person was running or walking.
What is stride length?
300
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridges start on one side of the finger and finish on the other side of the finger.
What is an arch?
300

Scat, fur, feathers are all forensic examples of

What is animal activity?

300

Loops, how the "i" is dotted and how the "t" is crossed are examples of this

What is form?

400

"The crying boy may have fallen off of his bike" is an example of...

What is an inference?

400
A design on the bottom of a shoe.
What is a tread pattern?
400

Type of print that is a combination of two

What is a composite print?

400

What tire tracks can tell a forensic scientist

What is size, make or model of vehicle, load, speed and direction of travel?

400
The word for handwriting analysis
What is graphology?
500

The five senses

What are sight, sound, touch, taste, smell?

500

Visible footprints left on the surface by blood, grease, etc being transferred

What is a patent print?

500

This is what causes our fingerprint pattern to transfer onto objects we touch

What is oil and sweat?

500

Fibers made from cotton, wool, leather, fur

What is natural fibers?

500

The experiment done to match an ink sample with a suspect's ink sample

What is chromatography?

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