ch 8 Forensics Blood & Blood Spatter

True or false: A blood spatter analyst can determine if a sample of blood spatter is caused by sharp force trauma, blunt force trauma, or a gunshot wound.

• True

• false

The arrow is pointing to a

• satellite

• spine

• parent drop

Small secondary droplets around the main blood spatter drop are called:

• Spikes
• Splats
• Satellites
• Gushes

What type of bloodstain pattern is this?

• Passive

• Projected

• Transfer or Contact

The drop shown above would have more than likely been dropped from an angle of 

• 90
• 50
• 30
• 10

What direction did this blood come from?

• Top

• Bottom

• Left

• Right

The following indicates:

• cast off
• walking drip
• splash
• medium velocity impact 

Cast-Off Pattern

• bloodstain pattern produced when an object makes forceful contact with a

  source of blood, projecting droplets of blood outward from the source

• bloodstain pattern created when blood is flung from a blood-bearing object in

  motion onto a surface

• bloodstain pattern resulting from blood being expelled from the nose or mouth

  due to an internal injury; characterized by bubbles of oxygen in the drying

  drops

• bloodstain characterized by fine forward spatter from an exit wound and

  backward spatter from an entrance wound

What blood spatter pattern is seen in the picture?

• Cast Off
• Medium Velocity
• Void
• High Velocity

What blood spatter pattern is seen in the picture?

• Transfer/Contact
• Swipe
• Wipe
• Saturation