Clay Pottery Quiz

__________ is a term used to describe the process: roughing up the clay surface where two pieces of clay will be joined together.

• scraping

• gluing

• slip

• scoring

Clay that has been fired once but not glazed.

• Vessel

• Texture

• Bisque

• Fired

A method of hand-building clay by squeezing and pressing with fingers.

• Slab construction technique

• Coil technique

• Throwing technique

• Pinch technique

Watery clay, used to connect parts, is called:

• Jello

• Clay juice

• Slip

• Mud

When clay is slightly dry and more stiff but still holds moisture, it is bone dry.

• True

• False

There are 4 main ways to make pottery or ceramics, they are:

• Knead, wedge, glaze & fire

• Coil, slam, slump, & fire

• Coil, slab, pinch, and wheel thrown

• Slice, scrape, turn & glass

A rolled-out, flat piece of clay is called a __________.

Causes clay to explode when heated up.

• air pockets

• Texture

• Fired

• greenware

Clay that is still moist and mostly dry but still flexible is at what stage?

• Leather hard

• Greenware

• Bone dry

• Plastic

Glaze is a thick liquid with silica (glass) in it that makes it shiny.

• True

• False