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Forensic Basics
Forensic Careers
Types of Evidence
Evidence Characteristics
Fingerprints
100
Any science that is applied to the legal system.
What is forensic science?
100
A person in this career studies bones.
What is anthropology?
100
This type of evidence can be collected and touched.
What is physical evidence?
100
A characteristic of bite marks that can be used to match a bite to a suspect's teeth.
What is size, missing teeth, or abnormal teeth.
100
The actual material that is left behind whenever your fingertips touch a surface.
What is oil, sweat, or perspiration?
200
This type of evidence is unique to every individual person.
What are fingerprints?
200
A person in this career studies insects.
What is entomology?
200
This type of evidence is in the form of verbal or written statements.
What is testimonial evidence?
200
A physical characteristic of soil.
What is color, smell, texture, or appearance.
200
This type of fingerprint is invisible without the aid of some revealing method.
What is a latent print?
300
The documentation of the location and movement of evidence from the time it is collected until it is presented in court.
What is chain of custody?
300
A person in this career studies teeth and bite marks.
What is odontology?
300
This type of evidence is from human origins. Examples are blood, DNA, and bones.
What is biological evidence?
300
A chemical characteristic of white powders.
What is reaction to water, reaction to iodine, reaction to heat, and pH?
300
This type of powder must be observed using UV light and UV goggles.
What is fluorescent powder?
400
This principle states that "with contact between two items, there will always be an exchange."
What is Locard's Exchange Principle?
400
A person in this career studies bullets and ammunition.
What is ballistics?
400
This type of evidence is found in very small amounts.
What is trace evidence?
400
The three basic patterns of fingerprints.
What are arches, loops, and whorls?
400
This chemical reacts with the amino acids in sweat or body oils and turns a purple color. It comes in a spray bottle.
What is ninhydrin?
500
People in this career are in charge of comparing and matching fingerprints.
What is a latent print examiner?
500
A person in this career studies blood and body fluids.
What is biology?
500
This type of evidence is created when an object contacts a surface with enough force to leave a print.
What is impression evidence?
500
In a lab write-up, these five parts must be included.
What are the introduction, materials, methods, data, and conclusion.
500
This type of fingerprint is clearly visible.
What is a patent print?