This quiz complements DIG's February 2007 issue entitled: "Disaster."
Pick one answer from the menu under each question.
1. An organized system for handling and documenting evidence used by police in order to protect evidence from contamination is called:
a. chain of custody
b. forensics
c. line of research
d. order of events
2. An _____ is common shorthand used by emergency services to identify the different agencies and procedures by shortening their names to initials, such as FAR, ICS, and BCI.
a. acronym
b. anagram
c. atayif
d. abstraction
3. The branch of archaeology that tries to reconstruct what happens to evidence during such things as building collapses, car bomb,s and hurricanes is called:
a. catastrophe archaeology
b. cataclysm archaeology
c. disaster archaeology
d. tragedy archaeology
4. The type of archaeology that is used to examine the remains of human beings to uncover the details of how they died is known as:
a. forensic archaeology
b. police archaeology
c. laboratory archaeology
d. aeath archaeology
