Practice Fingerprinting Quiz

According to criminal investigators, fingerprints have how many fundamental principles?

• 1

• 4

• 3

• 10

No two people have been found to have the exact same fingerprint pattern.

• True

• False

A person's fingerprint pattern changes throughout their life.

• True

• False

Permanent scars or skin diseases can change a person's individual pattern.

• True

• False

Fingerprints have ridge patterns that produce the print and therefore allows them to be systemically identified.

• True

• False

How many classes of fingerprints are there?

• 1

• 3

• 4

• 10

Which of the following is not a class of fingerprint?

• whorl

• loop

• line

• arch

There are a variety of variations to a class of fingerprint. Which class has the most variations?

• loop

• whorl

• arch

Most people have what type of fingerprint?

• loop

• whorl

• arch

Only about 5% of the population have arches.

• True

• False