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WorksheetsForensics: 14 Disciplines and People
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
This type of discipline deals with studying the presence of toxic substances in a body and how the the individual was affected
Pathology
Psychology
Toxicology
Entomology
This discipline is used to investigate foot-related evidence, such as foot prints
Podiatry
Psychology
Odontology
Entomology
Trace evidence analysts involves...
studying insect life cycles
recovering of anything that is transferred while a crime is committed
carbon dating objects during excavations
studying criminals and drawing conclusions based on perpetrators' personalities
True or false: Forensic pathologists can identify a weapon that was used in a murder by examining a wound.
True
False
A murder was committed and a threatening voice message was discovered on the victim's phone. Which discipline of forensics would be most helpful in analyzing the message?
Archeology
Linguistics
Anthropology
Psychology
A body covered in bugs has been found in a park. Which type of expert might be brought to the scene to study the bugs to figure out how long the body has been there?
Toxicologist
Anthropologist
Entomologist
Pathologist
What type of material would a forensic geologist study at a crime scene?
Hair
Rocks, minerals, oil
Blood
Footprints in soil
Check all of the following that can be used to pull DNA for a forensic DNA analysis.
Hair (with follicle)
Blood
Saliva
Urine
This type of discipline deals with examining bones to infer age, gender, race, and overall physique of an individual.
Anthropologist
Botanist
Geologist
Pathologist
People in the digital forensics field mostly deal with...
searching for physical evidence at a crime scene
searching for evidence online in programs like social media
running DNA analysis and interpreting the results
analyzing calls made to victims from a suspect
A shell casing has been found near a crime scene. A person from which discipline would be called to help connect a weapon to the crime?
Trace evidence analysis
Ballistics
Pathology
Anthropology
Who popularized scientific investigation of crimes by writing Sherlock Holmes books?
Francis Galton
Hans Gross
Calvin Goddard
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Select all of the blood types that were discovered by Karl Landsteiner
A
B
I
O
Which discipline of forensics did Mathieu Orfila develop?
Pathology
DNA analysis
Toxicology
Ballistics
What does Locard's Exchange Principle state?
Perpetrators of crimes always leave evidence that is easy to recover
When a criminal comes in contact with an object or person, a cross-transfer of evidence occurs
Finger prints are the only type of evidence that are exchanged during a crime
Sir Alec Jeffreys developed the concept of...
Anthropometry
DNA typing
Toxicology
Alphonse Bertillon, created the concept of anthropometry for...
Examining bones to see how long the body has been dead
Distinguishing people (especially suspects) from one another by comparing body measurements
Determining age and gender of bodies
Dating things like rocks, soil, and minerals
Francis Galton made advancements in the field of forensics by studying fingerprints. Why are fingerprints so useful in connecting people to crimes?
Families have the same fingerprints, so a group of people can be connected.
Individuals have completely unique fingerprints, so a single person can be connected.
Siblings have the same finger prints, so a very few number of people can be connected.
How did Calvin Goddard, the "Father of Ballistics", connect things like shell casings to murder weapons?
Compared different guns by just looking at their shape
Compared different guns by just the speed of the bullets
Compared different bullets under a compound microscope, which he developed
True or False: Thanks to Hans Gross, things like paper documents are now accepted as evidence in a case.
True
False
