Fingerprints
Minutiae
Print Patterns
Acquiring Prints
Identifying Prints
100
The time frame during pregnancy when prints start to develop.
What is...10 weeks?
100
This is the center of a loop or whorl.
What is...a Core?
100
The least common type of fingerprints.
What are...Arches?
100
This substance is used to dust for prints.
What is.... Black development powder?
100
Name the print pattern.
What is... an Arch?
200
Explain why everyone has their own unique fingerprints.
What is... Each individual's prints are unique to them due to the different combinations of minutiae on their prints?
200
This type of minutiae involves a ridge splitting into two.
What is...a Bifurcation or a Fork?
200
Print pattern that contains a high peak in the center.
What is... Tented or Spiked Arch?
200
Invisible prints left at a crime scene.
What are... Latent prints?
200
Name the print patterns.
What is...a Whorl?
300
Fingerprints are classified as this type of evidence.
What is... Individual, Physical, Circumstantial Evidence?
300
This type of minutiae involves a line that abruptly stops?
What is... an Ending ridge?
300
The most common print pattern.
What are... Loops?
300
Prints left behind in blood or created with ink are classified as_________.
What are... Patent prints?
300
Name the print pattern.
What is... a Double Loop?
400
The layer in the skin where fingerprints are located.
What is... the Dermis (Basal Layer)?
400
Even though there is not specific requirement of minutiae to match a print, the United States requires this many.
What is... 8 to 12 minutiae matches?
400
Type of print that contains 2 deltas.
What are...Whorls?
400
The chemical to test latent prints that reacts with the amino acids from your fingers.
What is... Ninhydrin?
400
Name the print pattern
What is...Accidental?
500
IAFIS is the digital system that matches prints of criminals. What does it stand for? (WILL NOT BE ON THE TEST)
What is... Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System?
500
This type of minutiae has two ridges that combine with one another and then split back into their original ridges.
What is... a Cross over?
500
This type of loop enters and exits on the thumb side.
What is... Radial loop?
500
The chemical in superglue that allows prints to develop (WILL NOT BE ON THE TEST).
What is... Cyanoacrylate?
500
Name the print pattern. Assume on the right-hand.
What is... Ulnar Loop?