Human Decomposition TEST

TRUE (A) OR FALSE (B): Bodies hidden in hotter temperatures will decompose slower

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE (A) OR FALSE (B):Time of death is used to determine important information like when the crime happened

• TRUE

• FALSE

How death came about; a judgement based on circumstances surrounding a fatal event is referred to as

• Manner of death

• Mechanism of Death

• Cause of Death

• Death

Cause of Death is defined as

• How Death Came About

• Reasons/events that came before death

• process that causes 1 or more vital organs/systems to fail when fatal diseases, injury, abnormality, chemical insult occur

• none of the above

Which of the stages of human decomposition is a body in as bacteria multiply and process body materials and produce gases that causes the body to bloat

• Initial Breakdown

• Active Decay

• Bloating

• Advanced Decay

Livor Mortis/Rigor Mortis/Algor mortis all help forensics scientists to determine

• TOD

• Cause of Death

• Mechanism of Death

• Manner of Death

A body found at a crime scene had no visible rigor. Based on information known about Rigor Mortis, what conclusions can we make from this?

• The body has been dead for 24 hours

• The body has been dead over 2 hours

• the body has been dead for less than 2 or more than 26 hours

• the body has been dead for exactly 12 hours

Lividity is known as pooling of blood in the body and is part of Livor Mortis. Which of the following is true about Lividity:

• It begins immediately after death

• It begins after 9 hours

• it goes away after 8 hours

• its permanent after 8 hours

Which medical examiners term is used when discussing a would that is closer to the head than the shoulders in whole body terms?

• superior

• inferior

• proximal

• distal

Which medical examiners term is used to describe a wound on a limb that is away from the trunk of the body

• Proximal

• Distal

• Superior

• Inferior