Forensics Death Investigations Quizs

within minutes of a death, insects arrive to the warm body and:

• begin to feed on it
• lay their eggs on it
• colonize it as their new home

When does the initial film form on the open eye after death?

• 30 minutes

• 1-2 hours

• 2-3 hours

• 4+ hours

Which one of the following is a cause of death?

• Bleeding to death from a gunshot wound

• Homicide

• Accidental

• Natural

An elderly man is found dead in his car with the windows down. He has been missing for 2 days. The average temperature has been 36 degrees F. How would these factors affect lividity, rigor mortis, and algor mortis rates?

• lividity - decreases

  rigor - decreases

  algor - increases

• lividity - decreases

  rigor - increases

  algor - unaffected

• lividity - decreases

  rigor - unaffected

  algor - increases

• lividity - increases

  rigor - increases

  algor - increases

the specific body failure that leads to a person's death

• mechanism of death
• decomposition
• manner of death
• cause of death

The process of the body's continually decreasing in temperature after death until it reaches the environmental temperature is known as

• livor mortis

• algor mortis

• rigor mortis

Although both a coroner and an forensic pathologist are charged with investigating a suspicious death, only the ____________ is trained to preform an autopsy.

• coroner

• forensic pathologist

What is the meaning of death?

• Irreversible cessation of circulation of blood and brain function ceased

• Not regaining consciousness

• Sleeping

the cessation, or end, of life

• instar
• pupa/pupae
• death
• putrefaction

to take a corpse's temperature, forensic investigators insert a thermometer into the 

• mouth
• liver
• armpit
• stomach