Vocabulary Terms
Characteristics of Fingerprints
Wild Card
Collecting Fingerprints
History of Fingerprints
100
A type of print pattern in which a small circle or spiral originates in the center and all outer lines surround the center in a circular path.
What is WHORL?
100
What are the three types of fingerprint pattern categories?
What is... Arches Loops Whorls
100
T/F: Fingerprints are considered individual evidence.
What is True?
100
A hidden fingerprint made visible through the use of powders or ninhydrin.
What is latent fingerprint?
100
The year that Alphonse Bertillon first used fingerprints to identify a criminal.
What is 1879?
200
A triangular ridge pattern with ridges that go in different directions above and below a triangle
What is DELTA
200
What type of pattern is this print?
What is Double Loop Whorl?
200
Which fingerprint pattern is most common in the U.S.?
What is Loops?
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?
200
The earliest record of the study of fingerprints in western culture dates back to what year?
What is 1684.
300
A combination of details in the shapes and position of lines that make each fingerprint unique
What is RIDGE PATTERN?
300
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern originates from one side of the print, curves upward in one big wave, and leaves from the other side
What is ARCH?
300
On average, how many unique ridge patterns can be identified on one full fingerprint?
What is 150?
300
What technique for collecting prints would be best for paper material?
What is ninhydrin chemical testing?
300
T/F: Europe no longer uses the ten card to help file and classify fingerprints.
What is false?
400
What is this pattern?
What is CENTRAL POCKET LOOP or CENTRAL POCKET WHORL?
400
What type of fingerprint do approximately 35% of the US population have?
What is whorls?
400
What are two ways in which an individual could attempt to alter their fingerprints?
What is burning with acid, scraping/filing off skin, surgically removing/replacing, and/or laser mutation?
400
A three-dimensional fingerprint made in soft material such as clay, soap, or putty.
What is plastic fingerprint?
400
In 1788, it was first recorded that...
What is no two fingerprints could be duplicated?
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
Identify each of the ridge patterns that are zoomed in on this print:
What is short ridge, ending ridge, dot, eye, and fork?
500
Two ways a patent fingerprint can be lifted?
What is digital photograph or tape?
500
Who first grouped fingerprints based on common patterns/characteristics?
Sir Edmund Richard Henry (Galton also acceptable)