Forensics Final Study Guide 2

A crime scene investigator observes the scene and makes mental notes (or records them) of what he/she hears, sees, and smells.

• forensics

• forensic anthropologist

• crime scene

• approach the scene

Walking around the outside of the scene to see if anything is obvious about the crime.

• secure and protect the scene

• initiate preliminary survey

• prepare a narrative of the scene

• crime scene

A skeletal biologist who applies what is known about human skeletal variation (differences) to the individual case by developing a profile (age, gender, ancestry, stature).

• forensics

• forensic anthropologist

• crime scene

• approach the scene

Finding the boundaries of a crime scene and controlling who goes into and out of the scene.

• secure and protect the scene

• initiate preliminary survey

• prepare a narrative of the scene

• crime scene

The notes that presents the full story of what the investigator saw and any impressions the evidence gave that investigator.

• secure and protect the scene

• initiate preliminary survey

• prepare a narrative of the scene

• crime scene

The notes that presents the full story of what the investigator saw and any impressions the evidence gave that investigator.

• secure and protect the scene

• initiate preliminary survey

• prepare a narrative of the scene

• crime scene

fibers composed of a loose arrangement of polymers that are soft, elastic, and absorbing.

• yarn

• crystalline

• amorphous

• polymer

fibers composed of polymers packed side by side, which make it stiff and strong.

• natural fiber

• crystalline

• yarn

• synthetic fiber

the passing of evidence, such as fiber, from victim to suspect or vice versa.

• polymer

• monomer

• secondary transfer

• direct transfer

the smallest indivisible unit of a textile, it must be at least 100 times longer than wide.

• fiber

• yarn

• textile

• monomer