Stages of Decomposition & Entomology Test Review DOL

During which decomposition stage goes rigor, livor, and algor mortis occur?

• Fresh

• Putrefaction

• Decay

• Post-decay

This is the stage where the body is most like a skeleton.

• Butyric Fermentation
• Dry Decay
• Black Putrefaction
• Initial Decay

The means by which someone dies is known as the:

• Proximate cause of death
• Mechanism of death
• Manner of death
• Cause of death

One of 5 means by which someone dies.

• Mechanism of death

• Cause of death

• Manner of death

An child dies after being kept from receiving proper health care by her guardians. The manner of her death would be:

• natural

• accidental

• homicide

• undetermined

The pooling of the blood in tissues after death resulting in a reddish color to the skin.

• Liver Mortis

• Algor Mortis

• Instar

The cooling of the body after death.

• Autolysis

• Algor Mortis

• Liver Mortis

stage 3 of decomposition

• active decay

• dry or skeletal

• advanced decay

• fresh stage

• bloating

The specific body failure that leads to death.

• Manner of death

• Mechanism of death

• Cause of death

Another name for the larva stage of development in insects is:

• pupa
• egg
• instar
• cocoon