Clay Vocabulary Quiz

The process of removing air bubbles from clay

• Popping
• Decompressing
• Wedging 
• Stretching

Air bubbles in clay cause this to happen

• texture
• explosions
• lightweight
• polyps

What stage is clay most easily molded by hand?

• Leather-hard Clay

• Green Clay

• Bone Dry

• Bisqueware

When making forms hollow, what do we do to avoid explosions?

• Slip and Score
• Make sure it's dry
• Keep it thick
• Make a vent hole

What is the soft, liquid clay used to attach 2 pieces of clay together?      

• Slip
• Plastic
• Elmer's
• Hot Glue

What stage of clay is best to carve designs/texture into the clay?  

• Leather-hard Clay
• Bone Dry Clay
• Bisqueware
• Glazeware

What is it called when you make the texture of clay rough so that it will stick to another piece?

• score
• chop
• scratch
• dig

This is an example of what type clay technique?

• Welding
• Using slip
• Scoring

What is the correct order of action EVERY time you attach two pieces of clay together? 

• Slip, Score and Smooth
• Score, Slip and Smooth
• Smooth, Slip, Score
• Smooth, Score, Slip

The picture illustrates making a pot through this method

• slab
• coil
• wedge
• pinch