Unit 1 Vocab Quiz

What is the definition of ceramics?

• objects that sometimes retain their shape after being heated to a low temperature

• objects that sometimes retain their shape after being heated to a high temperature

• objects that permanently retain their shape after they have been heated to a specific temperature

• clay that never needs to be fired. always stays moldable

What is the definition of Plastic/Plasticity?

• waterbottles are made out of plastic

• plastic material that can be melted to form new items

• Property of clay that allows it to change shape without tearing or breaking

• clays ability to be unchanging and solid.

What is slip?

• colorful glaze used to decorate a piece of clay

• fluid suspension of clay in water used in joining clay pieces and for surface decoration

• mud straight from the ground that is used for lots of things in the medium of ceramics

• something you wear under your dress

What does leather hard mean?

• stage between plastic and bone dry. When the clay has dried but may still be carved or joined to other pieces

• some kind of fabric that has harden from sitting in the sun too long

• when you use leather to help soak up the clays water so you can use it more quickly

• the last stage in the clay process before the first firing

What does it mean when the clay is bone dry?

• When the clay is shapped into a bone the clay can be considered bone dry

• When the clay is still cold to the touch and it can still be bent

• the process of recycling clay into the pug mill

• stage of drying when moisture in the clay body has evaporated so the clay surface no longer feels cold

What is green ware? and how many times has it been through the kiln?

• Unfired pottery or sculpture. 5 times through the kiln.

• Unfired pottery or sculpture. 2 times through the kiln.

• Unfired pottery or sculpture. 0 times through the kiln.

• Unfired pottery or sculpture. 19 times through the kiln.

What is Bisqueware? and how many times has it been through the kiln?

• ceramic ware that has gone through the first firing at a relatively low temperature & maintains its porous state. 1 time through the kiln.

• Finished pottery ready for use and or display

• ceramic ware that has gone through the third firing at a relatively low temperature & maintains its porous state. 3 time through the kiln.

• ceramic pieces that have broken into pieces because they were accidentally dropped

What is Glazeware? And how many times has it been through the kiln?

• coating of glass that is fused to the surface of a ceramic piece. 7 times through the kiln.

• The type of paint we use to coat ceramic bisqueware

• the type of frosting used for doughnuts

• coating of glass that is fused to the surface of a ceramic piece. 2 times through the kiln.

What is a kiln?

• a giant trashcan used to discard ceramics

• structure build to fire clay at high temperatures

• a time machine structure used to take clay to space and back so that it is hardened and ready for glaze

• a structure built to freeze clay to low temperatures

What is a firing?

• Adding water to recycle the clay into a plastic state

• heating pottery or clay sculptures to high temperatures, enough to render it hard and durable

• cooling potter to low temperatures to make it soft and usable again

• lighting the pottery on fire as a source of kindling to make smores