Ceramics Vocabulary Quiz

This form of clay acts as a "glue" to connect pieces of pottery together while hand building.

• slip

• scoring

• greenware

• bisque

This refers to a method of joining two pieces of clay together.

• Hand building

• Wax Resist

• Score and Slip

• Glue and Paste

When speaking of clay, we refer to five basic stages of clay. They are:

• Greenware, bisque, leather hard, plastic, glaze ware

• Slip, greenware, bisque, wedged, plastic

• Wet, leather hard, bone dry, glaze ware, fired

• Fresh, stale, dry, almost dry, fired

This is a method in which the clay is shaped by inserting the thumb of one hand into the clay and lightly squeezing with the thumb and fingers while slowly rotating the ball in the palm of the other hand.

• Slab building

• Pinching

• Coil building

• Slumping

This is the process of heating the pottery to a specific temperature in order to bring about a particular change in the clay or the surface.

• Roasting

• Baking

• Firing

• Cooking

A glass-like surface coating for ceramics that is used to decorate and seal the pores of the fired clay is called

• Slip

• Underglaze

• Glaze

• Majolica

The term for ceramic ware that has not yet been fired is

• Raw ware

• Greenware

• Bisque ware

• Raku

This is the technique of building ceramic forms by rolling out ropes of clay and joining them together with scoring and slipping.

• Wheel throwing

• Pinching

• Slab building

• Coil Building

A specialized oven or furnace used for industrial processes such as firing clay for pottery or bricks

• Casting oven

• Cauldron

• Kiln

• Furnace Oven

A method of kneading clay to get rid of any air bubbles

• Throwing

• Wedging

• Coiling

• Smoothing