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Fingerprint Review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of fingerprint is shown?

a)

Plain arch

b)

Tented arch

c)

Inverted arch

d)

Pyramid arch

2.

What type of fingerprint is shown?

a)

Arch

b)

Loop

c)

Whorl

d)

Impossible to identify

3.

What type of fingerprint is shown?

a)

Arch

b)

Loop

c)

Whorl

d)

Impossible to identify

4.

Forensic examiners look for the presence of a __________ and delta(s).

a)

Short ridge

b)

Bifurcation

c)

Core

d)

Crossover

5.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three principles of fingerprints?

a)

A fingerprint is an individual characteristic

b)

A fingerprint pattern will remain unchanged for the life of an individual

c)

Fingerprints have general characteristic ridge patterns to identify them

d)

Identical twins have the exact same fingerprints

6.

Covering fingers, toes, feet, & palms, fingerprints (i.e. prints) are essentially small what?

a)

Ridges

b)

Oils

c)

Spikes

d)

Gluons

7.

For each fingerprint shown, the RED SQUARE identifies what fingerprint ridge characteristic?

a)

Bifurcation

b)

Core

c)

Delta

d)

Eye

8.

Which of the following ridge characteristics can be defined as one ridge dividing into two?

a)

Island or short ridge

b)

Eye or enclosure

c)

Bifurcation or fork

d)

Double bifurcation

9.

When minutiae on two different prints match, these are called points of similarity or points of identification.  At this point, how many points of identification are required according to the international standard for a match between two fingerprints?

a)

16

b)

12

c)

8

d)

There is no international standard

10.

____________ is the study of the uniqueness of friction ridge structures and their use for personal identification.

a)

Ridgeology

b)

Forensics

c)

Fingerprintology

d)

Cartography