Review for Fun
1. Read sentence and fill in the blank with the correct pottery term. Each blank is one point each.
Cink Sink Needle Tool Glaze Fire Loop Tool
Modeling Tool Leather Hard Press Coil
Bone Dry SoldnerMixer Red Earthen Ware Fettling Knife
Stylus Pottery Wheel Ware Board Columns
Bird Nose Petter Pugger Rubber Rib Hydrometer
Bat Bracket Electricity Ribbon Tool
Wood Wire Tool Plates Bisque
Wooden rib Trusts Board Dish Washer
Porcelain Stone Ware Wood Kiln Racker
Firing Shelves Sprung Arch Leather Hard
Glaze Slab Silver Tool Kick Wheel
Electric Kiln Kiln Sitter Crain Tool Posts
Bat Mobile Pyrometer Sky Hook Randel Wheel
Pyrometric Cone Shimpo Slab Roller Craft
1. What is a rolled out flat piece of clay know as?______________________
2. What are the two tools used trimming on the potter’s wheel or carving?___________________,___________________
3. What is the round disk used for working on the potters wheel?________________
4. When is the best time for carving clay?_________________
5. What type of clay mixer do we have? __________________
6. What type of clay do we use?______________________
7. When is clay ready to bisque fire?______________
8. What is a rope like piece of clay known as?__________________
9. What is a wire like tool used for cutting clay off the potter’s wheel?_____________
10. What is the Egyptian pencil like tool used for writing in clay? ________________
11. What are the two pieces of kiln furniture we use to load a
kiln?____________,_________
12. What tool is used for smearing clay in places where you cannot reach with your fingers?______________
13. What is the final firing is known as the?_____________________
14. What is the square board used for holding clay known as?_________________
15. What fuel source do our kilns use?______________________
16. What is the mini carving tool known as?____________________
17. Where should you wash your muddy tools at?________________
18. What is the cart for holding ware boards know as?________________
19. What is the electric machine used for making ceramic vessels know
as?_________________
20. What is the machine used for making flat clay?______________________
21. What is a flexible knife used for cutting clay? ____________________
22. What is a needle like tool used for working on the potter’s wheel?__________
23. What is the liquid glass substance used for painting on bisque ware?___________
True or False
1. Clay is easy to work with when it is bone dry
2. 20. All glazes have to be shaken or stirred before using.
3. When making coil pots you do not have to smear the inside together
4. Clay does not dry out when left uncovered
5. Red earthen ware is the only type of clay.
6. The origins of clay began in the 21st century
7. Clay pieces crack because they dry out to fast and were not put together well.
8. Clay only shrinks in the bisque firing.
9. The bisque firing can cause pieces to stick together if they touch.
10. Pottery tables must always be cleaned up and wiped down.
11. The best time to carve clay is when it is bone dry.
12. You can only recycle bisque fired pottery
13. Clay cannot be recycled.
14. Pit fired pottery is fired in a beehive kiln.
15. It is ok to leave glaze on the bottom of your vessels.
16. The electric kiln is the only way to fire pottery.
17. Clay will blow up if it is too thick and not bone dry.
18. Kiln bricks are very fragile.
19. The glaze firing temperature we use is cone 06.
15. The bisque firing temperature we use is cone 04.
16. All kiln firing temperatures are completed at cone 4.
17. Porcelain is a dark low fire clay body.18
18. The electric kiln uses propane gas in the glaze firing
19. Kiln furniture is for sitting on in the pottery studio.
21. You should never double-dip your brush from glaze to glaze.
22. Raku pottery uses high fire glazes.
23. Wood fired pottery has a textured glaze.
24. Salt fired pottery is fired at low temperatures.
25. You always glaze the inside of your pottery.
Short Essay (write on the back of exam)
1. List 10 steps to making a coil vessel. 10pts
2. List 10 steps to making a slab vessel. 10pts
3. List 4 steps to making clay. 5pts
4. Compare and contrast the differences between wood and salt fired pottery. 10 pts
5. Compare and contrast the differences between raku and pit fired pottery. 10pts
Matching (circle the best answer)
1. A structure built to fire clay at high temperatures
A. Oven
B. Kiln
C. Wedging
D. Molding
2. The clay had dried enough to be stiff, but may still be carved
A. Partially hard
B. Pleather hard
C. Leather hard
D. Partly hard
3. The general term for any form that is used to shape clay
A. Mold
B. Template
C. Bowl
D. Stencil
4. Beating the clay with a flat stick
A. Hitting
B. Paddling
C. Flattening
D. Slabbing
5. Another word for Green-ware unfired clay
A. Natural clay
B. Soft clay
C. Raw clay
D. Preliminary clay
6. Making shapes by pressing clay slabs into molds
A. Pressing
B. Press mold
C. Drapping
D. Drape mold
7. Scratching the surface of clay before joining pieces together
A. Scoring
B. Slipping
C. Slumping
D. Scaring
8. A pattern or stencil used to shape clay the profile of a piece
A. Shape cutter
B. Relief
C. Flange
D. Template
9. Liquid clay used to join parts
A. Watery clay
B. Glaze
C. Slip
D. Gloss
10. If you have built an enclosed form out of clay, do you need to put a small hole in?
A.Yes
B. No
11. A shinny glaze would be called a __________gaze.
A. Matte
B. Mat
C. Gloss
D. Semi gloss
12. Rolling coils by hand requires what kind of pressure?
A. Light uneven pressure
B. Heavy even pressure
C. Light even pressure
D. Heavy uneven pressure
13. A measuring tool that we have used in making clay pieces so that they are precise
A. Wood tools
B. Wire tool
C. Needle tool
D. Ruler
14. What tool do we use to cut the block of clay from the bag?
A. Wood tool
B. Wire tool
C. Needle tool
D. Loop tool
Short Answer and Web Site
15. Past cultures in history made clay pots for storing food. What technique did they use?
16. What happens if you don’t wipe the glaze off the bottom of a vessel before putting it in the kiln?
17. After you finishing working with your clay for the day, what must you do to keep it from drying out so you can keep working on it?
18. (6 ) weebly.com blogs of your projects this semester. Post on your site by the projects you chose
In complete sentences
What is underglaze?
When is the best time to apply underglaze?
How many times is your underglazed piece fired?
What is the difference between a cone 04 firing and a cone 5 firing?
What is a translucent glaze?
When is the best time to use a translucent glaze?
What is an opaque glaze?
What is over glaze?
Why is it important to score, slip, and stick when joining clay pieces together?
Why is it important to use a coil when joining two pieces of clay together?
Why is it important to never pour a glaze from its bottle into a container?
When is the best time to carve clay?
What tool should you use to draw in clay?
What tools should you use to carve clay?
Explain why you should never use small carving tools on bone dry clay?
Is it possible to join new clay to bone dry clay?
Can you glaze pieces that have not been bisque fired?
Why is it important to wash brushes and leave them up right to dry?
When you get fresh clay from the bag why is it important to seal the bag back up?
What happens when your ceramic pieces are too thick and fired in the kiln?
List 5 steps to making a 3/8 inch slab.
List 4 steps to making a handle for a coffee mug?
List 4 steps to rolling out coils
List 4 steps to making a pinch pot bowl.
How many coats of glaze should you apply to your bisque ware?
Why is it important to clean the glaze off the bottom of your pottery before it is fired?
What should you use to clean the bottom of you pottery?
Why is it important to use news paper when you are working with slabs?
What tools are used for shaping and smoothing clay?
Why is it important to leave your project on a ware board when you are working on it?
How do you know when your project is bone dry?
What elements and principles of art have you used in this class?
What is your favorite project? What ceramic hand-building techniques did you use?
Why is it important to recycle all of our clay?
Why is it important to be careful with all our supplies?
Why is it important not to throw clay? (5 sentences)
Why is it important to research pottery and art from other cultures?
Why is it important to wait for the kiln to cool before opening it?
Is it possible to carve designs on bisque ware?
List 4 steps to recycling/making clay.
List 4 steps to loading a kiln.
Why is it important to make a template when building slab projects?
What cone temperature does the bisque fire to?
How can you tell a project has been bisque fired?
What should you do with bisque ware before you glaze it?
Where should you put pieces to be bisque fired?
Where should you put pieces to be glaze fired?