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