Fingerprint Warm-up #1 (10/10-10/12)

Last updated about 1 year ago

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Last updated about 1 year ago

7 questions

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Classify the following items as latent, patent, or plastic fingerprints.

someone places their hand in wet cement, leaving a detailed impression
Mr. Ly's 2 year old nephew pressed his finger into some Play-Doh leaving an impression.
fingerprints left on a door handle when entering someone's home
fingerprints left on a plastic water bottle after taking a drink
a bloody fingerprint left at a crime scene
rubbing your finger on graphite and then leaving a visible print on a piece of paper

True

False

True

False

Classify the following items as latent, patent, or plastic fingerprints.

someone places their hand in wet cement, leaving a detailed impression 

Mr. Ly's 2 year old nephew pressed his finger into some Play-Doh leaving an impression.

fingerprints left on a door handle when entering someone's home

fingerprints left on a plastic water bottle after taking a drink

a bloody fingerprint left at a crime scene

rubbing your finger on graphite and then leaving a visible print on a piece of paper

latent

patent

plastic

Drag the fingerprints to their respective categories.

loop

arch

whorl

IAFIS is a California fingerprint data base of more than 76 million criminal fingerprints and criminal histories.

True

False

Match the minutiae patterns to their correct names.

bifurcation

enclosure

island ridge

trifurcation

ridge ending

Identical twins have identical fingerprints.

True

False

How many whorls does this person have?

0

1

2

3

cannot be determined

Which finger(s) is/are the whorls on?

left little, left ring

left middle, left little, left ring

right little only

this person has no whorls

left middle only