Basic Ceramic Vocabulary Quiz

The art of making objects with clay and firing them in a kiln.

• pottery
• ceramics
• mudwork

Clay that has been fired once, unglazed.

• Sculpture
• Greenware
• Bisque
• Leather-hard

A furnace or oven built of heat resistant materials for firing pottery.  

• Microwave
• Kennel
• Kiln
• Forge

A glassy coating that has been melted onto a clay surface by the use of heat. 

• Glaze
• Slip
• Grog
• Ceramic

Clay with a lot of water added to it that is used as a sort of glue to hold clay pieces together 

• Grog
• Glaze
• Slime
• Slip

When long ropes of clay of equal thickness are used to build a ceramic object.

• Coil method
• Slab construction
• Greenware
• Leather-hard

Hand-building technique which involves forming slabs of clay and connecting them with scoring and slip to form a vessel. 

• Coil Method
• Slab Construction
• Greenware
• Leather-hard

Clay that is stiff, but is still damp.

• Leather-hard
• Greenware
• Bisque
• Grog

 Method of kneading a mass of clay to get rid of air bubbles?

• Scoring
• Slipping
• Wedging
• Glazing

What handbuilding technique involves pinching and turning a ball of clay?

• Pinch pot

• Extruding

• Wheel Throwing

• Slump Mold