Fingerprint Review

What type of fingerprint is shown?

• Plain arch

• Tented arch

• Inverted arch

• Pyramid arch

What type of fingerprint is shown?

• Arch

• Loop

• Whorl

• Impossible to identify

What type of fingerprint is shown?

• Arch

• Loop

• Whorl

• Impossible to identify

Which of the following is NOT one of the three principles of fingerprints?

• A fingerprint is an individual characteristic

• A fingerprint pattern will remain unchanged for the life of an individual

• Fingerprints have general characteristic ridge patterns to identify them

• Identical twins have the exact same fingerprints

For each fingerprint shown, the RED SQUARE identifies what fingerprint ridge characteristic?

• Bifurcation

• Core

• Delta

• Eye

this is a _____ fingerprint

• whorl

• ulnar loop

• radial loop

• arch

the most common type of fingerprint is the

• whorl

• loop

• arch

______ is the fingerprint database

• NIBIN

• CODIS

• AFIS

• PDQ

fingerprints found in soft material are called

• latent

• plastic

• visible

fingerprints that are invisible at the scene are called

• latent

• plastic

• visible