Fingerprint Vocabulary
Fingerprint Patterns
Types of Prints
Minutiae
Miscellaneous
100
These are the three basic fingerprint patterns
What are Loops, Arches and Whorls?
100
This fingerprint pattern has a spiral shape
What is a whorl?
100
a hidden fingerprint made visible through the use of powders or other techniques
What is a Latent Print?
100
A center of a loop or whorl
What is a core?
100
This is the percent of the population that has Arches
What is 5%?
200
An imprint made by ridge patterns on the tip of a finger is a definition for what term?
What is a fingerprint?
200
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern originates from one side of the print and leaves from the other side
What is an Arch?
200
a visible fingerprint that happens when fingers with blood, ink, or some other substance on them touch a surface and transfer the pattern of their fingerprint to the surface
What is a Patent Print?
200
What is this Minutiae?
What is a bridge?
200
This person developed the Ten Print Card
Who is Sir Edward Richard Henry?
300
A combination of details in the shapes and position of ridges in fingerprints that make each unique; also called a ridge
What is Minutiae?
300
What type of fingerprint does the highest percentage (65%) of the population have?
What are Loops?
300
a three-dimensional fingerprint made in soft material such as clay, soap, or putty
What is a Plastic Print?
300
This is the ridge pattern found on a fingerprint
What is a dot or island?
300
This person came up with the name for Loops, Arches and Whorls
Who is Francis Galton?
400
The FBI computerized system, the IAFIS stands for this
What is the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System?
400
This is the least common fingerprint pattern
What is an Arch?
400
This Chemical reacts with amino acids in the finger to produce a purple print
What is Ninhydrin?
400
Triangular pattern found on your fingerprint
What is a delta?
400
This cyanoarcrylate reacts with print residues to make a white permanent impression when heated in this latent print method
What is the superglue fuming method?
500
These are the three basic types of crime scene prints
What are Patent, Latent and Plastic Prints?
500
These are the two types of "Loops" and the two types of "Arches"
What are Radial and Ulnar loops and Plain and Tented Arches?
500
What are the two main ways a latent finger print can be lifted?
What are Powders and Chemical tests?
500
The forensic name for this "fork" found in your ridge patterns
What is a bifurcation?
500
Criminal courts generally accept 8 – 12 points of similarity in ridge characteristics for this important reason
What is to make a positive comparison between latent prints found at the scene and the perpetrator?