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Vocabulary Terms
Characteristics of Fingerprints
Fingerprinting Technology
Collecting Fingerprints
History of Fingerprints
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A center of a loop or whorl
What is CORE
100
What are the 3 types of fingerprints?
What is... Arches Loops Whorls
100
Experts claim that fingerprint identification is__________.
What is flawless.
100
a hidden fingerprint made visible through the use of powders or other techniques
What is latent fingerprint.
100
This person wrote a paper describing the human hand under a microscope, including the presence of ridges.
What is Dr. Nehemiah
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A triangular ridge pattern with ridges that go in different directions above and below a triangle
What is DELTA
200
What characteristics are fingerprints named for?
What is General visual appearance and patterns.
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.
200
The earliest record of the study of fingerprints in western culture dates back to what year?
What is 1684.
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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
Out of 156 fingerprint examiners How many 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.
300
He described 9 distinct fingerprint patterns including loops, spirals, circles, and double whorls.
Who is Jan Evangelist Purkyn.
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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
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What type of fingerprint does the highest percentage (65%) of the population have?
What is loops.
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The imprint of a fingerprint consists of natural secretions of the sweat glands that are present in/on _____________
What is in the friction ridge of the skin.
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 Alphonse Bertillon created to identify criminals?
What is Bertillonage.
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A form used to record and preserve a person's fingerprints
What is TEN CARD
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A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern flows inward and returns in the direction of the origin.
What is LOOP.
500
New fingerprint technologies can scan at the rate of...
What is 500-1,000 dots per inch.
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
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!! Describe how criminals alter their fingerprints refering to the case of John Dillinger.
Some criminals alter their finger prints by using acids. In the case of John Dillinger he 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. However, fingerprints can grow back and are still able to help identify you.