Forensic Science - Fingerprints

What type of fingerprint is this?

• arch

• whorl

• loop

When are fingerprints formed?

• When you are a teenager
• During fetal development
• By the time you are two years old
• At birth

A fingerprint is considered individual evidence.

• False
• True

The most common method of visualizing latent prints is dusting.

• True

• False

What type of fingerprint is this? (Right hand)

• accidental whorl

• double loop whorl

• yin-yang whorl

• plain whorl

Which minutiae looks like a very small line or dot between two large ongoing lines?

• Ridge ending

• Enclosure

• Bifurcation

• Island

An invisible print that must be developed using powder or chemicals is called

• plastic
• latent
• patent
• underdeveloped

This is a circular spiral pattern.

• accidental whorl

• double loop

• central pocket loop whorl

• plain whorl

Over 60% of the population has this type of pattern.

• loops

• whorls

• arches

• ripples

When a solid is heated and transforms into a vapor, the process is called:

• precipitation

• evaporation

• sublimation

• condonsation