Chapter 6 (pgs. 191-204)

1. This author used fingerprinting as forensic evidence in a book he wrote 1894.(two words)
5. About 65% of the total population has this ridge pattern.
6. Our fingerprints are covered with hundreds of microscopic these that make our fingers moist.(two words)
10. This was a system named after the person who created it to identify criminals using a list of physical measurements.
13. The place where archaeologists discovered fingerprints pressed into clay tablet contracts.
14. This was American Public Enemy Number One in the 1930s who used acid to try and change his fingerprints.(two words)

1. Every individual, including identical twins, has unique ridge characteristic details called this.
2. These are the calculations of distances and angles between key minutiae points.
3. This is the center of a loop or whorl.
4. Trace amounts of this substance have been recovered from fingerprints.
7. Plastic fingerprints are actual identifications left in some soft material such as clay, putty, or this material.
8. Some fingerprints have a triangular ridge pattern called this.
9. Thes type of fingerprints are left on a smooth surface when blood, paint, grease, ink, or other material comes into contact.
11. Loops can be classified as ulnar or this depending on the direction of the opening of the loop.
12. This is used to lift and preserve the fingerprint.