WorksheetsCeramics Vocabulary Quiz
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 11mins
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
A pottery technique in which a form is built up by joining shapes cut from thick sheets of damp clay.
Slab
Shape
Mould
Sheet
What is the stage when clay is at its most workable state?
Slip
Leatherhard
Plastic
Glazeware
A piece must be completely dry before it is fired.
True
False
The process for making clay products permanent through baking at high temperatures is
Finishing
Petrifaction
Permanence
Firing
A decomposed granite type rock with plastic like consistency.
glaze
marble
balsa foam
clay
What is the term for clay that has been fired once in the kiln?
Plastic
Greenware
Leather hard
Bisque
What is the thickness that is recommended in your pottery?
1 inch thick
2 inches thick
1/2 inch thick
1/4 inch thick
What is glaze made of?
Paint and water
Colored clay in water
Glass particles in a liquid emulsion
