ASM 275 ACTUAL FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Importance of Context - ✔✔Recovery of a surface body -- Location, Establishing
forensic scene, Clearing, Mapping, Collection,
Prepare for:
Extreme scattering of bones by animals
Covering of remains by leaves
Dead vegetation & new growth
Partial or complete self-burial,
Provenience System: establish grid for recovery
Provenience: location of items in 3D in reference to a fixed reference point (datum) -
both horizontal and vertical, horizontal more for forensic
Recovery of a buried body-- Same as above, Excavation AFTER clearing
✔✔Provenience - ✔✔location of items in 3D in reference to a fixed reference point
(datum) - both horizontal and vertical, horizontal more for forensic
✔✔Datum - ✔✔fixed reference point
✔✔Plain View Maps - ✔✔horizontal provenience
, ✔✔Forensic Taphonomy - ✔✔the science of burial - studies what happens to the body
from the time of death through discovery
✔✔Forensic Entomology - ✔✔Uses of insects at crime scenes (blow flies + beetles)
✔✔Autolysis - ✔✔results from cell death & action of enzymes that work against the cell
& destroy it
✔✔Putrefaction - ✔✔consumption of the body by endogenous bacteria
✔✔Rigor Mortis - ✔✔chemical binding of muscles fibers, muscles lock in place
✔✔Cadaveric Spasm - ✔✔occurs when someone dies of a very violent & emotional
death (not the same as rigor mortis)
✔✔Livor Mortis - ✔✔discoloration of body due to settling of blood & other body fluids
✔✔Algor Mortis - ✔✔body temperature drops following death
✔✔ What is a forensic anthropologist, and what do they do? - ✔✔branch of both
forensic science & biological anthropology - field of study that deals with skeletonized or
decomposed remains for the purpose of aiding in a legal investigation -- forensic
anthropologists use their knowledge of forensics and anthropology at supposed or real
crime scenes
✔✔Nomial - ✔✔Nominal data are discrete and discontinuous data that are classified
according to some qualitative measure that cannot be placed in a specific order; that is,
there is not a way in which membership in one category has more or less of a specific
quality that the variable is capturing or representing.
✔✔Ordinal - ✔✔Ordinal measurements are discrete data that can be ranked (i.e., put in
order).
✔✔Interval - ✔✔Interval data are continuous scale data that are ordered, quantified,
and with exact differences between the values.
✔✔Ratio - ✔✔ratio scale data are ordered, quantified, and have exact known
differences between values. -- has an absolute zero
✔✔Teeth Order - ✔✔enamel on top
dentine on middle
pulp chamber on bottom
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Importance of Context - ✔✔Recovery of a surface body -- Location, Establishing
forensic scene, Clearing, Mapping, Collection,
Prepare for:
Extreme scattering of bones by animals
Covering of remains by leaves
Dead vegetation & new growth
Partial or complete self-burial,
Provenience System: establish grid for recovery
Provenience: location of items in 3D in reference to a fixed reference point (datum) -
both horizontal and vertical, horizontal more for forensic
Recovery of a buried body-- Same as above, Excavation AFTER clearing
✔✔Provenience - ✔✔location of items in 3D in reference to a fixed reference point
(datum) - both horizontal and vertical, horizontal more for forensic
✔✔Datum - ✔✔fixed reference point
✔✔Plain View Maps - ✔✔horizontal provenience
, ✔✔Forensic Taphonomy - ✔✔the science of burial - studies what happens to the body
from the time of death through discovery
✔✔Forensic Entomology - ✔✔Uses of insects at crime scenes (blow flies + beetles)
✔✔Autolysis - ✔✔results from cell death & action of enzymes that work against the cell
& destroy it
✔✔Putrefaction - ✔✔consumption of the body by endogenous bacteria
✔✔Rigor Mortis - ✔✔chemical binding of muscles fibers, muscles lock in place
✔✔Cadaveric Spasm - ✔✔occurs when someone dies of a very violent & emotional
death (not the same as rigor mortis)
✔✔Livor Mortis - ✔✔discoloration of body due to settling of blood & other body fluids
✔✔Algor Mortis - ✔✔body temperature drops following death
✔✔ What is a forensic anthropologist, and what do they do? - ✔✔branch of both
forensic science & biological anthropology - field of study that deals with skeletonized or
decomposed remains for the purpose of aiding in a legal investigation -- forensic
anthropologists use their knowledge of forensics and anthropology at supposed or real
crime scenes
✔✔Nomial - ✔✔Nominal data are discrete and discontinuous data that are classified
according to some qualitative measure that cannot be placed in a specific order; that is,
there is not a way in which membership in one category has more or less of a specific
quality that the variable is capturing or representing.
✔✔Ordinal - ✔✔Ordinal measurements are discrete data that can be ranked (i.e., put in
order).
✔✔Interval - ✔✔Interval data are continuous scale data that are ordered, quantified,
and with exact differences between the values.
✔✔Ratio - ✔✔ratio scale data are ordered, quantified, and have exact known
differences between values. -- has an absolute zero
✔✔Teeth Order - ✔✔enamel on top
dentine on middle
pulp chamber on bottom
