Prints and Impressions

What are the three categories of impressions?

• Patent, latent, and plastic

• Visible, hidden, and three-dimensional

• Patent, visible, and hidden

• Latent, plastic, and three-dimensional

What can an asymmetrical gait indicate?

• A limp or someone carrying a heavy weight

• someone walking normally

• someone is running

What does the length of stride indicate?

• If someone was walking or running

• If someone was walking or limping

• If someone was running or limping

• If someone was walking or carrying a heavy weight

What is the first step in collecting shoe impression evidence?

• Photographing the evidence

• Lifting latent impressions

• Casting plastic impressions

• Measuring foot length and shoe size

How can latent impressions be made visible?

• Using luminol, dusting, and electrostatic dusting

• Using luminol, dusting, and gel lifting

• Using dusting, electrostatic dusting, and gel lifting

• Using luminol, electrostatic dusting, and gel lifting

a visible print left on a smooth surface

• patent print

• plastic print

• latent print

an impression left in soft material (clay, mud, putty, wax)

• patent print

• plastic print

• latent print

prints not visible to the unaided eye

• patent print

• plastic print

• latent print

Which of the following are ways people have attempted to alter their fingerprints? (choose all that apply)

• burns

• sandpaper

• acid

• waiting for age to change them

• cutting

What is the name of 'A'?

• tread area

• rib

• groove