6th grade Ceramic Unit Vocabulary Quiz

Slip is:

• The art of making and decorating clay

• A liquid mixture of clay and water

• A tool used for shaping clay

• A firing technique

What is Greenware in ceramics?

• A type of glaze used in ceramics

• A color of clay used in pottery

• A tool used for shaping clay

• Unfired pottery ready for the bisque firing

What is Glaze in ceramics?

• A type of paint used on ceramics

• A thin coating of glass applied to ceramics

• A tool for shaping ceramics

• A type of clay used in ceramics

Leather Hard in ceramics is:

• a stage where clay is partially dry between plastic & bone dry

• a type of glaze used in pottery

• a tool used for shaping clay

• a firing technique for ceramics

A Kiln in ceramics is:

• A furnace used for shaping clay

• A furnace used for firing clay

• A furnace used for painting clay

• A furnace used for mixing clay

Glaze firing in ceramics is:

• the first firing

• a method of shaping clay on a potter's wheel

• a technique for painting designs on ceramics

• the final firing with glaze

What does firing mean in ceramics?

• A process of shaping clay into desired forms

• A method of painting ceramics

• The process of heating clay to a specific high temperature in the kiln

• A technique for glazing ceramics

Coil/Coiling is:

• shaping clay into long ropes of clay that resemble snakes

• painting designs on the surface of a ceramic piece

• glazing a ceramic piece to make it waterproof

• firing a ceramic piece in a kiln

What is Clay made of?

• Alumina, silica and mud

• Alumina, paint and water

• Alumina, silica and water

• Acid, silica and water

What is Bisque Fire?

• A type of glaze used in pottery

• The first firing process in ceramics

• We don't fire clay we let it air dry first

• The last firing process in ceramics