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Vocabulary Terms
Characteristics of Fingerprints
Collecting Latent Prints
Collecting Fingerprints
History of 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

Which chemical is used on items such as wood and styrofoam to reveal latent prints?

Silver Nitrate

100
a hidden fingerprint made visible through the use of powders or other techniques
What is latent fingerprint.
100

The oldest known document showing fingerprints dates from third century B.C. in China, where they were used to authenticate all official documents. (True/False)

True

200
A triangular ridge pattern with ridges that go in different directions above and below a triangle
What is DELTA
200
Fingerprints consist of natural secretions of sweat glands. Name three secretions contained in a print.
What are water, oils and salts (and or dirt)
200

What chemical is used to reveal latent prints on paper, cardboard, unpainted surfaces, and porous surfaces.

Iodine Fuming

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 do a person's fingerprints begin to form?
At about the 10th week of pregnancy.
300
The individual details within a fingerprint are called what?
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 chemical is used on paper and porous surfaces to visualize latent prints?

Ninhydrin

300
What are the 3 kinds of fingerprints found by investigators?
What is patent, plastic, and latent.
300
How long has the individual nature of fingerprints been known?
About 2000 years.
400
The raised lines of a fingerprint are called what?
What is RIDGES
400
What type of fingerprint does the highest percentage (65%) of the population have?
What is loops.
400

Which chemical is used on household objects such as plastic, metal, glass, and nonporous surfaces to visualize latent prints?

Cyanoacrylate (Super Glue)

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

What are the two programs formed by the FBI to create a repository for biometric and criminal history.

IAFIS (Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System) and NGI (Next Generation Identification)

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 is used to enhance the latent print on smooth, nonporous surfaces such as drinking glasses, faucets, and phones.

Carbon Powder (I guess just powder is acceptable)

500
What are the two ways a latent finger print can be lifted?
What is... 1. Dusting with powders 2. "fuming"
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!! Describe how John Dillinger tried to alter his fingerprint.
John Dillinger tried using acid to remove his fingerprints after hearing stories about how Cuban worker’s fingerprints began to disappear after being exposed to the chemicals in pineapples over time. It didn't work! His fingerprints came back.