S1 Forensic Science Review

The ability to establish the exact whereabouts of an item of evidence and under whose control it was from its collection at the crime scene to its presentation in the courtroom and everywhere in between is called

• chain of command

• chain of custody

• record of evidence

material that can be related to a single source

• individual evidence

• class evidence

• control evidence

material that connects an individual or thing to a group that share similar characteristics

• individual evidence

• class evidence

• control evidence

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-8

Locard's Principle states

• every criminal leaves fingerprints

• every criminal leaves shoe prints

• every contact leaves trace evidence

• every criminal will be caught

Small but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at a crime scene

• circumstantial evidence

• direct evidence

• individual evidence

• trace evidence

What is forensic science?

• the application of evidence to testing

• application or science to the law

• Any legal action that requires a police investigation

Define Criminalistics

• The examination of physical evidence

• Anything that tends to prove or disprove a fact

• Investigators of sudden, unexplained, or violent death

Density is

• volume/area

• perimenter/2

• mass/volume

• mass/area

The sample that comes from the crime scene is known as the

• cross reference

• Standard reference

• suspect sample

• crime scene reference

What type of evidence is Glass and soil?

• physical/testimonal

• testimonal/trace

• trace/testimonal

• trace/physical