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ANTH486 FINAL PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS What are the interests of forensic anthropologists in cases? - Answer-•provide expert testimony in court •increasingly involved in analysis for criminal cases What are five important aspects for law enforcement? - Answer-•ti...

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ANTH486 FINAL PRACTICE QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS

What are the interests of forensic anthropologists in cases? - Answer-•provide expert
testimony in court
•increasingly involved in analysis for criminal cases

What are five important aspects for law enforcement? - Answer-•timing of bodily injuries
(especially around time of death)
•force caused by trauma
•number of wounds
•sequence of wounds
•placement of wounds

Why is the placement of wounds important to law enforcement? - Answer-trauma to the
front of the body is associated with any manner of death while trauma to the back of the
body is more indicative of homicide.

Forensic anthropologists are more interested in death by __________ - Answer-trauma

What is "cause of death"? - Answer-factors that cause a person to die
i.e., heart stopped beating, person stops breathing

What is "manner of death"? - Answer-refers to the way in which a person dies
i.e., by violence, natural causes, or other reasons

What are the 5 manners of death? - Answer-•homicide
•suicide
•accident
•natural
•unknown

Bone usually only exhibits evidence for violent death or death by ________ trauma. -
Answer-skeletal

What is a greenstick fracture? - Answer-break in bone where separation between
broken ends does not occur

Where are greenstick fractures commonly seen? - Answer-•subadults
•long bones and clavivle

What is a simple fracture? - Answer-a bone broken in two segments

, Where are simple fractures commonly seen? - Answer-•breaks resulting from falls
•broken arm

What is a comminuted fracture? - Answer-break resulting in multiple fragments of bone

Where are comminuted fractures commonly seen? - Answer-•death by violence
•jumping from high places
•automobile accidents

What are the different types of bone fractures? - Answer-•greenstick
•transverse
•comminuted
•torsion
•oblique, displaced

What is a stress fracture? - Answer-break caused by overuse

Where are stress fractures commonly seen? - Answer-in the heels and legs of athletes

Fracture lines usually originate near point of _______ and help dissipate contracting
______ across bone surface. - Answer-impact; force

What are two types of fracture lines? - Answer-•radiating
•concentric

What is the most common type of fracture lines? - Answer-radiating

__________________ disperse outward like an irregular starburst from applied area of
force with the center of radiation indicating point of impact. - Answer-Radiating fracture
lines

__________________ form concentric rings around area of impact and is most
commonly seen in high-velocity projectile wounds. - Answer-Concentric fracture lines

T or F
Fracture lines cross preexisting fracture lines and skull suture lines - Answer-False

Fracture lines help determine _________ of breaks in bone when multiple fractures are
present. - Answer-timing

Breaks that occur in bones that are weakened by disease are called ____________. -
Answer-pathological fractures

A disease that makes bone weak and brittle is ____________. - Answer-osteogenesis
imperfecta

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