Fingerprints
Footwear
Crime Scenes
Blood & DNA
Anthropology
100

This fingerprint pattern may be equated to a hill or bridge

What is an Arch pattern fingerprint

100

The pattern, shape, and size of a footwear impression are all examples of a certain type oc characteristic

What is a class characteristic 

100
The phrase "every contact leaves a trace" is attributed to this individual

Who is Edmond Locard

100

The amount of nuclear DNA in your blood is most often described as less than _____ percent. 

What is less than one percent. 

100

Forensic Anthropology commonly involves which one of the four main disciplines of Anthropology 

What is Physical, or Biological, Anthropology. 

200

This fingerprint matrix is what fingerprint powders are known to adhere to

what is sweat, sebaceous oils, and other contaminates

200

Footwear impressions on hardwood or laminate surfaces may be discovered using this lighting technique

What is oblique or graze lighting 

200

Although evidence is significant at crime scenes.  What is always the first priority at a crime scene that exceeds the preservation of evidence. 

What is the preservation of life. 

200

This type of DNA may be found in the shaft of a human hair found at a crime scene. 

What is mitochondrial DNA. 

200

This discipline of Anthropology is commonly used when a body needs to be excavated from a crime scene.

What is archaeology. 

300

He was the first researcher known to document the uniqueness of fingerprints. 

Who is Johann Christoph Andreas (J.C.A.) Mayer

300
Wear on the bottom of an outsole creates this type of characteristic in footwear impressions
What is accidental characteristics 
300

This chemical may be used to detect trace amounts of blood at a crime scene, but requires darkness to do so. 

What is Luminol or Blue Star

300

This force causes blood to form into a sphere when no other forces are acting upon it. 

What is Cohesion

300

This area of an adult skeleton is often thought of as the best indicator of biological sex of the skeleton

What is the pelvis area. 

400

He created a classification system for fingerprints, which is the base of the current classification system used in North America. 

Who is Sir Edward Henry 

400

This force is the most common cause for wear on the bottom of a shoe. 

What is friction. 

400

This colour of light, and barrier filter, can be used at crime scenes to detect human bodily fluid stains like seminal fluid?

What is blue light and orange filter. 

400

The type of bloodstain caused by blood being moved from one surface to another through direct contact is?

What is a transfer stain

400

An adult human skeleton will have this many bones

What is 206

500

This process can use gold particles as part of the fingerprint development medium. 

What is vacuum metal deposition 

500

This discipline may be used to uniquely identify the foot, which left an impression within a shoe, through an examination of weight bearing areas on the bottom of a human foot. 

What is barefoot morphology 

500

A place where a crime did not occur, but evidence relating to a crime exists, may be referred as this

What is a Crime Scene. 

500

When a bloodstain strikes a flat surface at a low angle (e.g. 15 degrees), this aspect of the stain can tell investigators what direction the blood was travelling in when it was deposited?

What is that tail of the bloodstain. 

500

Trauma to a body, which occurred at or near the time of death, and has no sign of healing, is said to have occurred at this timeframe

What is Perimortem