Fingerprint Identification Facts

Loop ridge patterns look like

• a teardrop

• a square

• a spiral

• a triangle

What type of fingerprint pattern is this?

• Radial Loop

• Whorl

• Arch

• Double Loop

What type of fingerprint pattern is this?

• Accidental - a rare complex pattern that combines several different fingerprint patterns

• Whorl - a fingerprint pattern that forms circular or spiral shapes

• Loop - a fingerprint pattern that curves back on itself

• Arch - a fingerprint pattern that rises in the center and slopes down on both sides

? on fingers will create a fingerprint

• sweat and oil

• water and dust

• ink and paint

• blood and saliva

Patent fingerprints would be ones that you can see with the naked eye. Example--a print left in blood on a wall.

• True

• False

• Only visible under UV light

• Only visible with a microscope

Do your fingerprints remain essential unchanged over your life?

• Yes, they remain unchanged throughout life.

• No, they change frequently due to skin regeneration.

• Usually unless there has been a serious injury to the skin.

• Fingerprints can change with age and lifestyle.

? can be used to fume for latent fingerprints?

• Super glue--cyanoacrylate

• Acetone

• Isopropyl alcohol

• Water vapor

The least common fingerprint pattern is ?

• Loops

• Whorls

• Arches

• Tented Arches

A ridge that spreading apart of two lines that are parallel or nearly parallel.

• Convergence

• Divergence

• Parallelism

• Intersection

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The practice of utilizing fingerprints as a means of identification is called ?

• Dactyloscopy

• Dermatoglyphics

• Palynology

• Graphology