Forensic Science
Relating to or denoting the application of scientific methods and techniques to the investigation of crime
The line on a graph that runs horizontally through zero.
What is the x-axis?
A scientist who studies and finds fossils and bones of animals and plants that lived a very long time ago.
What is a paleontologist?
The cause of "zombie ants".
What is a fungus? What is Ophiocordyceps unilateralis?
The planet with the strongest gravity.
What is Jupiter?
Used to solve crimes by matching documents or stains found at a crime scene to the marker or pen that belongs to a suspect.
What is chromatography?
Calculated by adding a group of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers.
What is the average (mean)?
The physical, chemical, and biological processes that lead to the preservation of plant and animal remains over time.
What is fossilization?
A tool typically used for chopping wood, but would be a very useful tool to have during a zombie outbreak.
What is an axe?
A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure.
What are constellations?
Any tangible item that has some connection or information pertaining to a trial.
What is physical evidence?
Found by placing all numbers in a given set in order; this can be from lowest to highest or highest to lowest, and then count how many times each number appears in the set.
What is the mode?
4.543 billion years
What is the age of the Earth?
A parasitic flatworm, the adult of which lives in the intestines. It has a long ribbon-like body with many segments that can become independent, and a small head bearing hooks and suckers
What is a tapeworm?
Another name for the largest planets in our solar system.
What are gas giants?
Can transfer from a fabric source such as clothes, a carpet, bed, or furniture at a crime scene.
What are fibers?
Calculated by arranging the data points from smallest to largest. If the number of data points is uneven, you add 1 to the number of points and divide the results by 2 to get the rank of the data point.
What is the median?
Examples: Horns, long tails, bony plates, beaks, walking on two legs, fins, size, etc.
What are adaptations?
Extreme or irrational fear of water, especially as a symptom of rabies in humans.
The eight planets in our solar system.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Includes ridge patterns that are generally rounded or circular or even spiral in shape and have at least 2 deltas. 30-35% of the population have these.
What are whorls?
Shows data in a special table where each data value is split into the first digit(s) and the last digit.
What is a stem-and-leaf plot?
Order of herbivores with long necks, small heads, long tails. Translates to "lizard feet".
What is sauropoda?
Inflammation of the brain.
What is encephalitis?
48.4 years
What is Ms. Tylar's age on Venus?