Forensic Science – Coach Galliart Name: Sam Galicia
Chapter Six Extra Credit Date: Oct. 1, 2024 Hour: 3rd
1. Fingerprints are generally considered a form of individual evidence.
a. True b. False
2. Fingerprint arches may be:
a. plain and tented arches. b. fancy and tented arches.
c. multiple and tented arches. d. singular and tented arches.
3. Latent fingerprints, or surface fingerprints, are caused by the transfer of skin onto a surface.
a. True b. False
4. Similar to what we see on television, fingerprint matching is carried out by a computer in a
matter of seconds.
a. True b. False
5. The triangular region located near a loop pattern or a whorl is called a Delta.
6. While looking at the basic fingerprint patterns can quickly help eliminate a suspect, in order
to positively match a print found at a crime scene to an individual, more is needed. Every
individual, including identical twins, has a unique fingerprint due to unique ridge patterns
called:
a. small details. b. ridge details. c. minutiae. d. ridge minutiae
7. Similar print and ridge patterns can be found on toes as well.
a. True b. False
8. Patent fingerprints, or visible fingerprints, are left on a smooth surface when blood, ink, or
some other liquid comes in contact with the hands and is then transferred to that surface.
a. True b. False
9. A person’s full set of fingerprints can be recorded on what is called a Ten Card.
10. The chemical used to recover prints that reacts with amino acids found in sweat and
produces a purplish-blue print is known as Ninhydrin.
11. Fingerprint images of the left hand are mirror images of the fingerprints on the right hand.
a. True b. False
12. Which of the following is known as the super glue test?
a. ninhydrin b. iodine fuming c. cyanoacrylate vapor d. silver nitrate
13. As soon as fingerprints were discovered to be a reliable means of identification, criminals
began to devise ways to alter them so they could avoid being identified. American Public
Enemy Number One in the 1930s, John Dillinger, burned his fingertips with a torch to change
their appearance.
a. True b. False
14. Which type of loop opens towards the pinky finger?
a. left facing b. radial c. right facing d. ulnar
15. Patent fingerprints are caused by the transfer of oils and other body secretions onto a
surface.
a. True b. False
16. It is necessary to have a complete fingerprint in order to compare it to one found at a
crime scene.
a. True b. False
17. Actual indentations left in some soft material such as clay, putty, or wax is which type of
fingerprint?
a. latent b. patent c. plastic d. None of the above.
18. The type of powder used to dust prints is consistent regardless of weather conditions
when the print is lifted.
a. True b. False
19. List the percentage that each of the fingerprint patterns in terms of frequencies in
humans.
a. Loops 65% b. Whorls 30% c. Arches 5%
20. Fingerprint whorl patterns may be a:
a. plain whorl. b. central pocket loop whorl.
c. double loop whorl. d. All of these choices.
21. The elevated region in a fingerprint are called Friction ridge.
22. During which week of gestation do fingerprints begin to form?
a. 10th b. 20th c. 30th d. 40th
23. The imprint of a fingerprint consists of natural secretions of the sweat glands that are
present:
a. in the friction ridge of the skin. b. on the surface of the skin.
c. just under the surface of the skin. d. under the friction ridge of the skin.
24. Twins have identical fingerprints to one another.
a. True b. False
25. The AFIS program provides digital, automated fingerprint searches for the FBI.
26. A radial loop has an opening that points to the thumb side of a person.
27. Which type of print must be dusted or treated chemically in order to identify its ridge
pattern and minutiae?
a. patent b. visible c. plastic d. latent
28. Fingerprint experts can consider a print a viable match in court if there are a minimum of
12 matching minutiae to a print in question.
29. A ridge count is made by counting the number of ridges crossed from the center of the
delta to the center of a core.
30. The fingerprint pattern that resembles a bullseye is the Whorl.
31. The center of a loop is called the core.
a. True b. False
32. The fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern originates from one side of the print
and continues to the other side of the print is the Loop Pattern.
33. A Delta is a triangular ridge pattern found in whorls and loops.
