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CDF Review Part 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Forensic Science?

a)

The application of science to state and federal law.

b)

The application of science to civil and criminal law.

c)

The study of a crime scene to find evidence.

d)

How laws work in the courtroom.

2.

Who is Sir Conan Doyle?

a)

The Creator of Sherlock Holmes.

b)

The creator of DNA.

c)

The founder of forensic science.

d)

The father of Toxicology.

3.

Why was Sir Alec Jefferys so critical to forensics science as we know it today?

a)

He discovered fingerprinting.

b)

He appealed the idea of it to the government and won.

c)

He discovered DNA.

d)

He was well liked.

4.

Who made anthropometry?

a)

Mathieu Orfila

b)

Calvin Goddard

c)

Paul Kirk

d)

Alphonse Bertillion

5.

Who made the Exchange Principle?

a)

Calvin Goddard

b)

Edmond Locard

c)

Sir Conan Doyle

d)

Alphonse Bertillion

6.

What did Francis Galton do that was significant?

a)

He never married.

b)

He was the father of toxicology.

c)

He discovered Ballistics and striation marks.

d)

He discovered fingerprinting.

7.

What was the biology unit about?

a)

How animals can affect a crime scene.

b)

How DNA, body fluids, hair, and plants can be applied to forensics.

c)

How plants can affect a crime scene.

d)

How humans can affect a crime scene.

8.

What does the Document Examination Unit cover?

a)

Laws of the courtroom

b)

Style of legal work

c)

Examination of School documents

d)

Handwriting/ Questioned Documents

9.

The (a)   unit covers drugs and poison.

10.

The (a)   decision made the precedent for scientific evidence in court to be generally accepted.

11.

The (a)   decision set the precedent that expert testimony can be used and that the judge is the gatekeeper and final say in the courtroom.

12.

What is the role of an expert witness?

a)

To be the most reliable member of the Jury.

b)

To help the accusing side.

c)

Someone who possesses a skill or knowledge in a specific field.

d)

To help the judge make major decisions.

13.

Forensic Odontology

(a)  

14.

Forensic Entomology

(a)  

15.

What is the role of the use of chain of custody?

a)

A list of people who have come in contact with the evidence

b)

To show who used certain laws in court.

c)

People who have had custody of a child.

d)

People who have used a certain firearm or other weapon.

16.

What is forensic engineering?

a)

Going out to the field and finding evidence through engineering.

b)

Reconstruction of a crime scene.

c)

Construction of devices to find evidence.

d)

Reconstruction of weapons to use as evidence.

17.

What is CODIS?

a)

Paint

b)

Ballistics

c)

DNA

d)

Fingerprint

18.

What is AFIS/IAFIS?

a)

Paint

b)

Ballistics

c)

DNA

d)

Fingerprints

19.

What is IBIN/IBIS?

a)

Paint

b)

Ballistics

c)

DNA

d)

Fingerprint

20.

The responsibility of the first responding officer is to (a)   and secure the crime scene.