TSA Forensic Technology UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Passive Stains - CORRECT ANSWER - Drops, Flows, and Pools, results from gravity
acting
Transfer Stains - CORRECT ANSWER - object coming in contact with existing blood
stains and leaving wipes, smears, or pattern transfers
Impact Stains - CORRECT ANSWER - blood projecting through air and usually seen as
splatters. (May also include gushes, splashes, and arterial spurts.)
Gunshot Splatter - CORRECT ANSWER - Includes forward splatter from exit wound and
back splatter from entrance wound. Typically: Forward is a fine mist and the back is larger,
fewer drops.
Cast-Off - CORRECT ANSWER - Results when an object sung in arc flings blood onto
nearby surfaces. Tail points in direction of motion and the number of arcs can show minimum
number of blows.
Arterial Spray - CORRECT ANSWER - Spurt of blood when a major artery is severed
with new pattern created each time the heart pumps
Expired Splatter - CORRECT ANSWER - blood from an internal injury mixing with air
from lungs being expelled through the nose, mouth, or an injury to airways or lungs, forms a
very fine mist and some blood stains are latent.
Sharp Force Injuries (Stabbing) - CORRECT ANSWER - Less blood being deposited on
the instrument, smaller more linear patterns of stains
, Blunt Force Injuries (Hitting or Beating) - CORRECT ANSWER - larger surface area will
collect more blood, producing drops of various sizes.
Gunshot Injuries - CORRECT ANSWER - Mist like splatter caused by bullets entering
and exiting a body.
Transient Evidence - CORRECT ANSWER - evidence that might be expected to degrade
or disappear within a particular time frame
Exsanguination - CORRECT ANSWER - Bleeding to death
Sharp Instruments - CORRECT ANSWER - Make incised wounds
Blunt Objects - CORRECT ANSWER - Produce lacerations (deep cut or tear in flesh or
skin)
Altor Mortis - CORRECT ANSWER - Cooling of body after death
How long Lividity Lasts - CORRECT ANSWER - 36 hours
Lividity - CORRECT ANSWER - Discoloration of the body after death. Takes minutes to
an hour
Rigor Mortis - CORRECT ANSWER - Stiffening of a body after death. It takes about 4
hours after death
Classified as Traumatic Death - CORRECT ANSWER - Suicidal, Homicidal, Accidental
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Passive Stains - CORRECT ANSWER - Drops, Flows, and Pools, results from gravity
acting
Transfer Stains - CORRECT ANSWER - object coming in contact with existing blood
stains and leaving wipes, smears, or pattern transfers
Impact Stains - CORRECT ANSWER - blood projecting through air and usually seen as
splatters. (May also include gushes, splashes, and arterial spurts.)
Gunshot Splatter - CORRECT ANSWER - Includes forward splatter from exit wound and
back splatter from entrance wound. Typically: Forward is a fine mist and the back is larger,
fewer drops.
Cast-Off - CORRECT ANSWER - Results when an object sung in arc flings blood onto
nearby surfaces. Tail points in direction of motion and the number of arcs can show minimum
number of blows.
Arterial Spray - CORRECT ANSWER - Spurt of blood when a major artery is severed
with new pattern created each time the heart pumps
Expired Splatter - CORRECT ANSWER - blood from an internal injury mixing with air
from lungs being expelled through the nose, mouth, or an injury to airways or lungs, forms a
very fine mist and some blood stains are latent.
Sharp Force Injuries (Stabbing) - CORRECT ANSWER - Less blood being deposited on
the instrument, smaller more linear patterns of stains
, Blunt Force Injuries (Hitting or Beating) - CORRECT ANSWER - larger surface area will
collect more blood, producing drops of various sizes.
Gunshot Injuries - CORRECT ANSWER - Mist like splatter caused by bullets entering
and exiting a body.
Transient Evidence - CORRECT ANSWER - evidence that might be expected to degrade
or disappear within a particular time frame
Exsanguination - CORRECT ANSWER - Bleeding to death
Sharp Instruments - CORRECT ANSWER - Make incised wounds
Blunt Objects - CORRECT ANSWER - Produce lacerations (deep cut or tear in flesh or
skin)
Altor Mortis - CORRECT ANSWER - Cooling of body after death
How long Lividity Lasts - CORRECT ANSWER - 36 hours
Lividity - CORRECT ANSWER - Discoloration of the body after death. Takes minutes to
an hour
Rigor Mortis - CORRECT ANSWER - Stiffening of a body after death. It takes about 4
hours after death
Classified as Traumatic Death - CORRECT ANSWER - Suicidal, Homicidal, Accidental
