CSI

Question 1

What are the four types of finger prints?

Answer 1

loop, whorl, arch, composite

Question 2

What are four ways to categorize a fingerprint?

Answer 2

bifurcation, lake, ridge ending, island

Question 3

What is bifurcation on a fingerprint?

Answer 3

one ridge splits to form two ridges and then rejoin to one ridge again, forming a shape like a lake

Question 4

What is a lake on a fingerprint?

Answer 4

a ridge in the shape of a circle or oval

Question 5

What is a ridge ending?

Answer 5

a ridge ends

Question 6

What is an island on a fingerprint?

Answer 6

a very short ridge in the print pattern, is not connected to any other ridge, much like an island floating by itself.

Question 7

What are three ways to recognize that a human being was recently in a room?

Answer 7

fingerprints, footprints, items moved, electronics left on, lights left on, windows or blinds open

Question 8

What are three ways to recognize evidence of animal activity in an outdoor setting?

Answer 8

scat, trampled plants, remains of a meal, tracks

Question 9

What properties would you use to compare a soil sample

Answer 9

colour, texture, odour, content, particle size, particle shape, pH

Question 10

What do good detectives do?

Answer 10

pay attention to their surroundings, ask logical questions, contact people like forensic dentists and artists

Question 11

What skills do good detectives have?

Answer 11

observant, ready, reassuring but sterm and commanding

Question 12

What is an inference?

Answer 12

a statement or judgement made based on an observation, but cannot be directly observed itself (I think…because…)

Question 13

What is a pattern?

Answer 13

a ring of suspicious events or clues related to each other or something

Question 14

What does investigate mean?

Answer 14

is to look over a crime or case and try to find out information to solve it.

Question 15

What is evidence?

Answer 15

clues in an investigation used to find a suspect or close a case

Question 16

What is an observation

Answer 16

interpreting or describing with the five senses

Question 17

What are the 5 senses?

Answer 17

touch, sight, smell, taste, sound (hear)

Question 18

What is classifying?

Answer 18

to put objects into groups based on directly observable properties

Question 19

What is quantifying?

Answer 19

describing or comparing objects using measurements or numbers

Question 20

What are methods of quantifying?

Answer 20

time, length, volume, mass, speed

Question 21

What is questioning

Answer 21

asking thoughtful questions to gather necessary and accurate information

Question 22

Communicating

Answer 22

describing objects, events of finding (research) so other can understand your results

Question 23

What properties are used to identify animal tracks?

Answer 23

direction of travel, length and width, straddle, stride

Question 24

direction of travel

Answer 24

shows where the animal was going and where it has been

Question 25

length and width

Answer 25

gives us an idea of the size of the animal

Question 26

straddle

Answer 26

the distance inside the print, tells us how far apart the legs are

Question 27

stride

Answer 27

tells us whether the animal was walking or running - the further apart the strides the faster the animal moving

Question 28

How can you estimate the weight of an animal?

Answer 28

compare the depth of a track to your own

Question 29

Which animal would have about the same depth of print as you?

Answer 29

a wolf that weighs about 45kilograms (100 pounds)

Question 30

Which animal would have a shallower print than you?

Answer 30

coyotes (18 Kilograms/40 pounds)

Question 31

Which animal would have a deeper print than you?

Answer 31

black bear (100 kilograms - 200)

Question 32

bounder

Answer 32

leap into the air and land with four feet eg. weasel

Question 33

pacers

Answer 33

one front paw and one back paw beside each other eg. bears

Question 34

diagonal walkers

Answer 34

cats, dogs

Question 35

two toed (cloven-hoof)

Answer 35

deer, elk, moose, bison, mountain goats, wild sheep

Question 36

four toed animals

Answer 36

cats (cougar lynx), dogs (wolf, coyote, fox), rabbits

Question 37

five toed animals

Answer 37

weasels (badgers, wolverines, mink) bears, otters,skunks, beavers

Question 38

four in front, five in back

Answer 38

mice, squirrels, pika, porcupine, ground squirrels.

Question 39

foot print size =

Answer 39

15% of total height

Question 40

formula foot - height

Answer 40

footprint/height = 15/100 cross multiply and divide

Question 41

graphology

Answer 41

study of penmanship

Question 42

fabric forensics tests

Answer 42

wrinkling, stretch, absorbency, colour, colourfastness, flammability

Question 43

testing tracks

Answer 43

location, tread width, number of grooves, width of grooves, tread pattern, worn areas, texture

Question 44

jumping

Answer 44

feet are close together, landing on two and two or all four, distance between track is great

Question 45

alternating tracks, no bunching of tracks, close distance between

Answer 45

walking

Question 46

tracks still alternating, distance between tracks spreading out

Answer 46

casual gait

Question 47

distinct feet, large distance between tracks

Answer 47

running

Question 48

tracks begin to bunch together, distance increases

Answer 48

easy loping

Question 49

steady gait, distance increases

Answer 49

loping

Question 50

common indicators in comparing handwriting samples

Answer 50

spacing and slant of letters, spacing of words, pressure on the page, formation of loops, dotting of letters, crossing of t, how letters are joined, combination of printing and writing, size of words and letters, formation of x,q, extraneous marks on page or ornaments, writing tool used

Question 51

fabric/cloth/textile

Answer 51

formed from thread together (weave, knit, knot)

Question 52

thread

Answer 52

can be pulled out of a piece of fabric

Question 53

fibre (fiber)

Answer 53

need a microscope

Question 54

types of fabric

Answer 54

synthetic, natural

Question 55

synthetic fabric

Answer 55

polyester, acrylic, nylon, spandex

Question 56

natural fabric

Answer 56

wool, silk,cotton