Forensic science chapter 2 vocab quiz

The documented and unbroken transfer of evidence

• direct evidence

• crime scene investigation

• class evidence

• Chain of custody

circumstancial evidence

• Indirect evidence used to imply a fact but not support it directly

• A kind of evidence that directly connects an individual to something

• material that connects an individual thing to a certain group

• the location where the crime took place

crime scene investigation

• a multidisciplinary approach in which scientific and legal professionals work together to solve a crime

• walking around the crime scene and recording

• reconstructing the crime scene

• questioning individuals at the crime scene

material that connects an individual or thing to a certain group

• circumstancial evidence

• direct evidence

• individual evidence

• class evidence

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

a hypothesis of the sequence of events from before the crime was committed and through its commission

• crime scene analysis

• crime scene reconstruction

• forensic science

• crime scene understanding

a permanent, fixed point of reference used in mapping a crime scene

• point of reference

• datum point

• main point

evidence that, if authentic, supports an alledged fact of a case

• direct evidence

• totally true evidence

• factual evidence

• individual evidence

The first safety official to arrive at a crime scene (ex. police officer, firefighting, EMT/Paramedic)

• forensic official

• first responder

• officer of law

• government official

a kind of evidence that identifies a particular person or thing

• Individual evidence

• direct evidence

• forensic evidence

• trace evidence

Paper bindle

• a cute oragami paper

• a plain piece of paper

• a folded paper used to hold trace evidence

• a paper dropped by the suspect