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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
Entomology
Toxicology
2. What is ''Superimposition''
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
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 photographic technique that places a photo of a skull over a portrait of a person in order to compare skeletal and facial features
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?
Ballisto
Toxino
Bloodster
Luminol
4. What is ''Trace Evidence''?
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
Pattern formed by fire burning on or against a wall.
5. Which is a study of poisons, their effects and symptoms and testing to reveal their use?
Toxicology
Autopsy
Anthropometry
Ballistics
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?
Toxicology
Contamination
Trace evidence
Fluorescence
8. Which is a print that’s not readily visible to the human eye in normal light?
Transient evidence
Fluorescent print
Finger print
Latent print
9. Which is body's genetic blueprint, and which provide unique identifier for each individual?
DNA
CSI
NBA
GDP
10. Which is a criminal act of taking someone away by force, depriving that person of liberty or freedom?
Procedure
Autopsy
Abduction
Anthropometry
11. What does ''Postmortem'' mean?
After death
Under investigation
Examination
Manner of death
12. What is a technique of creating an identification system based on physical measurements?
Anthropometry
Autopsy
Ballistics
Maturation
13. What is an ''Amber alert''?
A false alarm
A stolen car alert
A prison escape alert
A child abduction emergency alert
14. Forensic comes from latin word 'forensis', but what does it mean?
It is derives from the Latin word for ‘knowledge’.
It relates to a discussion or examination performed in public.
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?
Accidental
Suicide
Undetermined
Homicide
Natural
Strangulation
16. What is CODIS ?
Financial investigations department of the Scotland Yard
International Crime Science Network and Database formed by Interpol
National US DNA database used by police and the FBI
Canadian coroner's office's database
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