Chapter 6 Review

The use of the ten print card began _____.

• In 1947

• At the end of the 19th century

• After World War II

• With the advent of biometrics

The imprint of a fingerprint consists of the sweat glands that are present in the _____ of the skin.

• basal layer

• subcutaneous tissue

• friction ridge

• subdermal stratum

_____ fingerprints are actual indentions left in some soft material such as clay, putty, or wax.

• plastic

• latent

• lifted

• patent

The _____ of a fingerprint is where the ridge patterns diverge or change direction.

• center

• twist

• core

• delta

Dusting smooth, nonporous surfaces with _____ can make a fingerprint more visible.

• ninhydrin

• fine carbon powder

• silver nitrate

• iodine residue

Computer analysis of fingerprints _____.

• examines individual ridges

• is used for final fingerprint identifications

• requires an entire fingerprint without any smudges

• calculates the distances and angles between key minutiae points

Technology is under development to provide a _____ from a fingerprint sample.

• 3-D printed fingertip

• virtual 3-D images

• molecular fingerprint

• health analysis

Fingerprints contain _____ that can be chemically analyzed using mass spectrophotometry to reveal information about what a person as touched or consumed.

• Sweat

• dead skin cells

• Hormones

• ribonucleic acid

With the launch of the FBI's NGI database, _____.

• getting a comparison with a fingerprint found at a crime scene takes three months or longer

• local federal, state, federal, tribal, and international law enforcement agencies can submit fingerprints

• local federal, state, federal, tribal, and international law enforcement agencies can submit fingerprints

• portable scanning units are required to access to RISC fingerprint data

A person with a ridge pattern with an accidental whorl ridge pattern has _____.

• two separate loop formations and two deltas

• a ridge pattern entering one side, rising in the center, and exiting out the other side

• two or more deltas and is a combination of the other patterns (other than a plain arch)

• one or more ridges that make a complete spiral