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Crime Scene Investigation Lingo - Multiple Choice

How well do you know your crime?
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1. Which one is examination of fire arms and the projectiles they discharge?
Ballistics
Premortem
Toxicology
Entomology
2. What is ''Superimposition''
A photographic technique that places a photo of a skull over a portrait of a person in order to compare skeletal and facial features
Fine lines in the internal rifling of a firearm caused by the cutting tool, which impart an individual identity to the gun, and to any billets fired from it
A coloration of the skin of the lower parts of a corps, caused by settling of the red blood cells as the blood ceases to circulate
Characteristic shape of part if the hipbone, that can indicate if the skeleton is a female or male
3. Which is a chemical used to detect trace amounts of blood at crime scenes?
Luminol
Ballisto
Toxino
Bloodster
4. What is ''Trace Evidence''?
Small bits of evidence, such as fibers, hairs, gunshot residue, etc.
Pattern formed by fire burning on or against a wall.
Impression evidence, such as fingerprints, footwear impressions, tire tracks, etc
Pattern formed by blood splatter on a wall, floor or other hard surface.
5. Which is a study of poisons, their effects and symptoms and testing to reveal their use?
Toxicology
Autopsy
Ballistics
Anthropometry
6. What is ''Rigor Mortis''?
The stiffness of the body after death
The beating, stabbing or other violence of the body after death
A coloration of the skin of the lower parts of a corps
Dismemberment of a body after death
7. What is unwanted transfer of material from another source to a piece of physical evidense called?
Contamination
Trace evidence
Fluorescence
Toxicology
8. Which is a print that’s not readily visible to the human eye in normal light?
Finger print
Fluorescent print
Latent print
Transient evidence
9. Which is body's genetic blueprint, and which provide unique identifier for each individual?
CSI
DNA
GDP
NBA
10. Which is a criminal act of taking someone away by force, depriving that person of liberty or freedom?
Anthropometry
Procedure
Autopsy
Abduction
11. What does ''Postmortem'' mean?
After death
Under investigation
Manner of death
Examination
12. What is a technique of creating an identification system based on physical measurements?
Anthropometry
Ballistics
Autopsy
Maturation
13. What is an ''Amber alert''?
A child abduction emergency alert
A prison escape alert
A false alarm
A stolen car alert
14. Forensic comes from latin word 'forensis', but what does it mean?
It relates to hiding things from the general public.
It relates to a discussion or examination performed in public.
It is derives from the Latin word for ‘knowledge’.
15. In Forensic pathology what is NOT an official manner of death / official circumstance surrounding the cause of death?
Strangulation
Accidental
Homicide
Natural
Undetermined
Suicide
16. What is CODIS ?
International Crime Science Network and Database formed by Interpol
National US DNA database used by police and the FBI
Financial investigations department of the Scotland Yard
Canadian coroner's office's database
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