Ceramics Terms Final Exam 6th period

What is ceramics?

• Objects made from clay

• Objects made from glass

• Objects made from plaster

The procedure of forming and shaping clay by squeezing the clay between your thumb and fingers.

• pinch

• coil

• slab

A technique that uses long ropes of clay to make pottery:

• scoring

• coiling

• slipping

The roughening of the surface of wet clay in order to attach another piece of wet clay

• coiling

• slipping

• scoring

A fluid mixture of clay and water

• slurp

• score

• slip

A stage in the drying process of clay when the clay is pliable but strong enough to carve

• greenware

• leather hard

• bisqueware

Unfired pottery is called...

• bisqueware

• greenware

• glazeware

The process which changes clay into ceramic

• scoring

• greenware

• firing

An insulated box which is heated to fire pottery and clay sculpture

• scrapers

• firing

• kiln

A term applied to the first firing before glazing

• bone dry

• bisque

• plastic