FSC100 Test 1
Hot Zone - correct answer ✔✔The immediate area in which the crime took place
Warm Zones - correct answer ✔✔Adjacent areas, around the hot zone, the larger perimeter
LOSER - correct answer ✔✔Listen Observe Search Evaluate Record
Three Tier Response - correct answer ✔✔dispatching all three branches of emergency response,
including police departments, EMS, and fire departments
Substantiates - correct answer ✔✔provides evidence for or proves truth
Forensic - correct answer ✔✔relating to or dealing with the application of scientific knowledge to legal
problems especially relating to criminal evidence
Systematic - correct answer ✔✔study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world
through observation and experimentation
Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Refers to anything that can give or substantiate information in a legal
investigation
Associative Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Any evidence that places an individual at a scene and/or with
a victim
Class Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Evidence that requires classification into a more narrow range (hair,
blood, urine, things human and nonhuman)
Trace - correct answer ✔✔Physical evidence that has been extracted from another substance and is in
small amounts (fibres, dirt...etc)
, Latent Evidence - correct answer ✔✔DNA, fingerprints, footprints, tire tracks...etc often not visible
without some means such as electronics (can not be collected like trace evidence)
Electronic Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Any information transmitted by or stored in an electronic
device.
Indicative Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Physical evidence that proves that a certain period of time has
elapsed (rate of body decomposing)
Circumstantial - correct answer ✔✔Collection of facts and observations that infer the culpability of an
individual but MAY ALSO BE coincidental — does not establish guilt or that crime has been committed.
(fingerprint on bag, blood at scene, suspect being in area of crime...etc)
Witnesses - correct answer ✔✔a person who sees a crime take place
Indirect Witness - correct answer ✔✔a person who did not witness the crime but knows the people or
objects involved (E.X. bus driver that can identify a regular passenger)
Direct Witness - correct answer ✔✔a witness who saw the crime (aka an eyewitness who brings
testimonial evidence or observational testimony)
Expert Witness - correct answer ✔✔specialist who processes physical evidence for a legal investigation
Character witness - correct answer ✔✔Vouches under oath to good reputation of another person often
in the community where that person lives (Usually to say defendant is a good person)
Warrant - correct answer ✔✔document from the court signed by a judge or magistrate that outlines:
specifically what offense has been committed, the place to be searched, and what people or things are
to be seized. To be executed immediately as there is an expiration date
Hot Zone - correct answer ✔✔The immediate area in which the crime took place
Warm Zones - correct answer ✔✔Adjacent areas, around the hot zone, the larger perimeter
LOSER - correct answer ✔✔Listen Observe Search Evaluate Record
Three Tier Response - correct answer ✔✔dispatching all three branches of emergency response,
including police departments, EMS, and fire departments
Substantiates - correct answer ✔✔provides evidence for or proves truth
Forensic - correct answer ✔✔relating to or dealing with the application of scientific knowledge to legal
problems especially relating to criminal evidence
Systematic - correct answer ✔✔study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world
through observation and experimentation
Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Refers to anything that can give or substantiate information in a legal
investigation
Associative Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Any evidence that places an individual at a scene and/or with
a victim
Class Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Evidence that requires classification into a more narrow range (hair,
blood, urine, things human and nonhuman)
Trace - correct answer ✔✔Physical evidence that has been extracted from another substance and is in
small amounts (fibres, dirt...etc)
, Latent Evidence - correct answer ✔✔DNA, fingerprints, footprints, tire tracks...etc often not visible
without some means such as electronics (can not be collected like trace evidence)
Electronic Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Any information transmitted by or stored in an electronic
device.
Indicative Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Physical evidence that proves that a certain period of time has
elapsed (rate of body decomposing)
Circumstantial - correct answer ✔✔Collection of facts and observations that infer the culpability of an
individual but MAY ALSO BE coincidental — does not establish guilt or that crime has been committed.
(fingerprint on bag, blood at scene, suspect being in area of crime...etc)
Witnesses - correct answer ✔✔a person who sees a crime take place
Indirect Witness - correct answer ✔✔a person who did not witness the crime but knows the people or
objects involved (E.X. bus driver that can identify a regular passenger)
Direct Witness - correct answer ✔✔a witness who saw the crime (aka an eyewitness who brings
testimonial evidence or observational testimony)
Expert Witness - correct answer ✔✔specialist who processes physical evidence for a legal investigation
Character witness - correct answer ✔✔Vouches under oath to good reputation of another person often
in the community where that person lives (Usually to say defendant is a good person)
Warrant - correct answer ✔✔document from the court signed by a judge or magistrate that outlines:
specifically what offense has been committed, the place to be searched, and what people or things are
to be seized. To be executed immediately as there is an expiration date
