Quiz -Unit 1: Intro to Forensics 1

Match this description with its forensic science career:

Tests for the presence of drugs and poisons in a living or deceased individual and determines if and how those substances contributed to deviant/harmful behavior or death.

• Forensic odontologist

• Forensic entomologist

• Forensic anthropologist

• Forensic toxicologist

Which of the following job functions might a Criminalist perform?

• Determine time of death

• Determine manner of death

• Protect evidence

• Establish cause of death

Which of the following is NOT one of the seven S's of Crime Scene Investigation?

• Search for Evidence

• Scan the scene

• Secure the collected evidence

• Search for suspects

Which professional performs autopsies and investigates the body of a person who has died a sudden, unexpected and/or violent death?

• Forensic Anthropologist

• Medical Examiner

• Forensic Pathologist

• Forensic Serologist

Which of the following would a forensic anthropologist NOT be able to determine about an individual?

• Approximate weight

• Approximate age

• Approximate height

• Biological sex

A forensic entomologist studies ______?

• Bones

• Blood

• Insects

• Plants

The scientist that is considered the "father of fingerprinting"

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Francis Galton

• Leone Lattes

• Edmond Locard

When a person comes in contact with an object or another person, a cross-ransfer of physical material can occur. This is called . . .

• Principle of deposit

• Locard's intensity principle

• Locard's Principle of Exchange

• Materials Exchange

Which Scientist was the first to divise the system of person ID using series of body measurments

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Francis Galton

• Leone Lattes

• Edmond Locard

Which statement below would Edmond Locard be most likely to say?

• Fingerprints can help identify people.

• Wherever there is contact, some trace of evidence is left behind.

• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

• There is always some type of DNA left at a crime scene.