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Vocabulary Terms
Characteristics of Fingerprints
Collecting Fingerprints
Miscellaneous
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
a hidden fingerprint made visible through the use of powders or other techniques
What is latent fingerprint.
100

When do fingerprints form?

What is, during pregnancy 3-4 months

200
A triangular ridge pattern with ridges that go in different directions above and below a triangle
What is DELTA
200

True or False: Twins have identical prints?

What is False

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

When when fingerprints first recorded and where?

What is around 2000 BC in China

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
What are the 3 kinds of fingerprints found by investigators?
What is patent, plastic, and latent.
300

A type of process used to uncover latent finger prints using gases

What is superglue fuming

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
a three-dimensional fingerprint made in soft material such as clay, soap, or putty
What is plastic fingerprint.
400

What is the system that has all the fingerprints in a database called?

What is AFIS

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
What are the two ways a latent finger print can be lifted?
What is... 1. Dusting with powders (carbon, magnetic, metallic) 2. Dripping with reactive chemicals