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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ENTOMOLOGY EXAM
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Question 1: Second stage of a fly's life cycle
Answer:
larva
Question 2: Stage of decomposition that begins at the moment of death
Answer:
Fresh
Question 3: Order that includes beetles
Answer:
coleoptera
Question 4: What four things do we want to know about a skeleton
Answer:
sex, age, stature, race
Question 5: What other information can we learn from bones?
Answer:
DNA, recent injuries, and cause of death
Question 6: How did they narrow down the areas to investigate?
Answer:
They used the probes to flag down the areas w/soft soil Question 7: Explain how a forensic entomologist would use fly larva to estimate the PMI
Answer:
1st -collect maggots 2nd-Identify species 3rd-Determine length of maggots 4th-use evidence
Question 8: What bones can provide clues for each of the following items?
Answer:
Sex-skull age and stature -humorous, femur race -skull
Question 9: study of insects
Answer:
entomology
Question 10: What information do they provide for law enforcement agencies?
Answer:
identification, how they were killed, DNA
Question 11: What does a physical anthropologist investigate
Answer:
bone
Question 12: First stage of a fly's life cycle
Answer:
egg
Question 13: Last stage of decomposition in which most of the flesh is gone
Answer:
Post decay
Question 14: Term that refers to the larval stage of a fly
Answer:
maggot Question 15: Third stage of decomposition; will have large maggot masses and noticeable odor
Answer:
decay
Question 16: Order that includes flies
Answer:
diptera Question 17: The time between the death and the discovery of a body; called the postmortem interval
Answer:
PMI
Question 18: Last stage of a fly's life cycle
Answer:
adult
Question 19: What is "disturbed soil"? What might it indicate?
Answer:
soil that has been mixed around; something being buried
Question 20: How many skeletons do they have in their collection?
Answer:
30,000
Question 21: What techniques or tools did the scientist use to find the body?
Answer:
probes
Question 22: Type of metamorphosis that has four stages
Answer:
complete
Question 23: Third stage of a fly's life cycle
Answer:
Pupa
Question 24: What do they learn about a skeleton from each tool?
Answer:
CT Scan, X-Ray, Mass spectrometer, Scanning electron microscope, DNA Analysis Question 25: Data related to the temperature and precipitation in an area where a crime scene is located
Answer:
weather Question 26: Second stage of decomposition in which the body becomes inflated due to the production of gases from bacteria
Answer:
Bloated Question 27: The shedding of an exoskeleton that occurs as a larva or adult insect grows
Answer:
molting Question 28: What bones are most useful for developing a profile of a person? Explain how they are used.
Answer:
skull. age, sex, and race
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