Pottery

Question 0

3 important ceramic materials are? (not clay)

Answer 0

Glass, plaster, cement

Question 1

The most significant material used in ceramics is?

Answer 1

Clay

Question 2

What was the beginning of the ceramics industry?

Answer 2

Pottery

Question 3

Studio pottery is the product of individual?

Answer 3

Potter

Question 4

The most universal material is?

Answer 4

Clay

Question 5

How much of earths surface is clay?

Answer 5

75%

Question 6

Ware means?

Answer 6

Pottery

Question 7

Damp clay is ____ or _____ to make a workable lump

Answer 7

Wedged or kneaded

Question 8

Clay often has to be sifted to remove impurities like?

Answer 8

Rocks, pebbles, twigs, sand, roots

Question 9

In the beginning of pottery many shops were near?

Answer 9

Rivers and streams

Question 10

How much clay is mines in the us each year?

Answer 10

100 million tons

Question 11

Iron-riched clay are normally what color?

Answer 11

Red

Question 12

Clay particles are called

Answer 12

Platelets

Question 13

What is the name of a clay that is too plastic?

Answer 13

Bentonite

Question 14

What ingredients makes clay slippery?

Answer 14

Organic matter

Question 15

What 3 essentials are the properties of clay?

Answer 15

Plasticity, porosity, vitrify

Question 16

What does vitrification mean?

Answer 16

Process of becoming glass like

Question 17

A glassy layer melted into a pot to seal the pores or decorate the ware is known as

Answer 17

Vitrification

Question 18

That colors is stoneware

Answer 18

Yellow and grey

Question 19

Earthenware is a ______-temperature clay.

Answer 19

Low-fired

Question 20

Porcelain is fired at a range at

Answer 20

2250-26000 degrees

Question 21

Stoneware and earthenware clays are usually easy to work with because?

Answer 21

Plastic

Question 22

Most materials become ___ and deform before they melt.

Answer 22

Soft

Question 23

Are the water I’d plasticity and mechanical water the same?

Answer 23

Yes

Question 24

Feldspar is the granite type rock that eventually becomes clay. List 4 other rocks containing feldspar

Answer 24

Granite, syenite, gabbro, basalt

Question 25

Does sand and ordinary dirt have chemical water?

Answer 25

Yes

Question 26

What is the most common and valuable clays?

Answer 26

Kaolin

Question 27

The aids in and helps cause melting

Answer 27

Flax

Question 28

Two clays that have weathered without absorbing much iron and alkali are?

Answer 28

Ball clay and secondary kaolin

Question 29

Adobe is used for?

Answer 29

Bricks

Question 30

Is Adobe fired?

Answer 30

No

Question 31

A very course clay and used for large sculpture

Answer 31

Terra cotta

Question 32

Mechanical weathering can turn clay in pot what colors?

Answer 32

Brown and red

Question 33

Primary and _____ mean the same thing.

Answer 33

Recidu

Question 34

Secondary and _____ mans the same thing

Answer 34

Sedimentary

Question 35

China clay and kaolin fire to what color?

Answer 35

White

Question 36

What category of clay is the largest

Answer 36

Secondary

Question 37

What 3 clays are seldom used by potters?

Answer 37

Adobe, bentonite, terra cotta.

Question 38

Describe the process of a pinch pot

Answer 38

-get a fistful ball of clay
-wedge it on burlap
-pound it into a ball
-use your fingers to pinch the clay forming it into a pot.
-fire it
-glaze it
-put back in kiln
DONE!

Question 39

In this process a tin enamel is applied to a ceramic piece. Then color is painted on it, and is glazed with a clear coat.

Answer 39

Majolica

Question 40

Decoration method. Slip is applied to green ware through a tube or nozzle, like icing a cake

Answer 40

Slip trailing