Vocabulary Terms
Characteristics of Fingerprints
Fingerprinting Technology
Collecting Fingerprints
100
A center of a loop or whorl
What is CORE
100
What are the 3 types of fingerprints?
What is... Arches Loops Whorls
100

What color does Ninhydrin turn when reacting with fingerprints?

What is PURPLE!

100
a hidden fingerprint made visible through the use of powders or other techniques
What is latent fingerprint.
200
A triangular ridge pattern with ridges that go in different directions above and below a triangle
What is DELTA
200

What are the two differences between male and female fingerprints are?

What is epidermal ridge detail and amino acid residue. 

200
What year did the FBI create the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System?
What is 1999.
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 patent fingerprint.
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
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern originates from one side of the print and leaves from the other side
What is ARCH.
300
How many fingerprint specialist made a false identification?
What is 1 in 5.
300
What are the 3 kinds of fingerprints found by investigators?
What is patent, plastic, and latent.
400
The recognizable pattern of the ridges found in the end joints of the fingers that form lines on the surface of objects in a fingerprint
What is RIDGE PATTERN
400
What type of fingerprint does the highest percentage (65%) of the population have?
What is loops.
400

Cyanoacrylate is most commonly found in what household item? 

What is superglue.

400
a three-dimensional fingerprint made in soft material such as clay, soap, or putty
What is plastic fingerprint.
500
A form used to record and preserve a person's fingerprints
What is TEN CARD
500
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern flows inward and returns in the direction of the origin.
What is LOOP.
500

The introduction of the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System resulted in three things. What are they?

What is a lower rate of cold cases, fewer re-offenders, and a significant drop in the length of investigations requiring fingerprint analysis.

500

What are two ways a latent fingerprint can be lifted?

What are... Alternative Light Sources, Cyanoacrylate, and Ninhydrin Dipping (only need two)

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