Prints and Impressions
People in CSI
CSI Processes
Science of CSI
Miscellaneous
100
The three different types of fingerprint patterns
What is whorls, arches, and loops?
100
Someone who had a crime done to them
Victim
100
The gathering and analysis of all crime-related physical evidence in order to come to a conclusion about a suspect.
Investigation
100
Change in which the form, appearance, or phase of a substance changes, but its chemical composition remains the same
What is a physical change?
100
To produce a copy or imitation of something for the purpose of deception.
Forgery
200
Fingerprints that need special tools to be seen
What are latent prints?
200
A person thought to be guilty of a crime
What is a suspect?
200
When someone explicitly admits to a crime
Confession
200
A traumatic brain injury
concussion
200
A claim or story that someone was elsewhere when a crime is alleged to have taken place.
Alibi
300
Three-dimensional impressions left on soft materials like clay, wax, or wet paint.
Plastic prints
300
The person who actually did a crime
Culprit
300
The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Murder
300
When the composition or identity of a substance is different
Chemical Change
300
The name for the pattern on the bottom of a shoe
Tread
400
Prints that are easily seen without special tools
What are patent prints?
400
Someone responsible for maintaining public order, enforcing laws, and ensuring public safety
Police officers
400
Asking someone a bunch of questions
Interrogation
400
What may or may not happen when you mix two different chemicals together
Chemical reaction
400
A method used to reveal latent fingerprints on smooth surfaces by applying a fine powder.
What is dusting/powdering?
500
The name for this feature:
What's a whorl?
500
The people that do autopsies
Forensic Pathologists
500
To remove someone from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, especially after due consideration of the case.
Exonerate
500
Separating ink based on its component colors by molecule size
What is ink chromatography?
500
The four different ways to conduct a search of a crime scene
What is spiral, quadrant/zone, linear, and grid?