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Ceramics Quiz
What is the oven-like machine that fires clay?
Kiln
What is the term for clay in its most dry state? It is most fragile and ready to be fired during this stage.
Bone Dry
What is the stage for when clay is hard and details can be carved into it? Molded shape cannot be changed.
Leather Hard
What is the term for good usable clay; able to be molded?
Plastic
Pudding-like clay; used as an adhesive.
Slip
Compressing clay to get rid of air bubbles. (Like kneading bread).
Wedging
Technique used to attach 2 pieces of clay.
Slip and score
Clay that is pressed with fingers is called?
Pinch
Rope-like clay pieces are called?
Coil
Clay rolled out flat to 1/2-1" inch in thickness?
Slab
Clay that is usually the color red is stoneware.
False.) Earthenware
Air pockets cause your artwork to break inside the kiln.
True
Clay does not shrink when it dries.
False, Clay DOES shrink when it dries.
Clay must be wedged for at least 10 minutes.
False, You only need to wedge for a minute or two.
Small projecting objects will most likely be broken off and lost.
Glasslike coating used for decoration.
Glaze
Clay pressed in, around or over an object is called?
Mold
The term used when referring to forming or shaping on a potter's wheel.
a.) Wheeling
b.) Pottering
c.) Throwing
d.) Sculpting
Throwing
Method of heating the clay product to a high temperature in order to bring about a particular chemical change in the clay.
Firing
This term refers to ceramic pieces that have been fired once without glaze.
Bisque
This term refers to the one of several techniques of building pots using the only the hands and simple tools rather than the potters wheel.
Hand-building
A machine used in the shaping of round ceramic wares.
A.) Wedging
B.) Kiln
C.) Wheel
A pot formed from a structure of coils or ropes of clay laid one on top of the other in a spiral.
Coil Pot
This tool is used to do what?
Cut clay from a lump or block.
Clay can explode in the kiln if:
a.) There are air bubbles in the project
b.) The project is too thick
c.) It is not completely bone-dry and moisture is still in the clay
d.) All of the above.
d.) All of the above!