Across
- 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)
Down
- 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.