Ceramics Final Review

Can you answer the following questions? They will be the same ones on your Final Exam.

1. Unlike the technique creating pottery on the potter's wheel, this method of building pots involves using only the hands and simple tools.
2. This form of clay acts as a "glue" to connect pieces of pottery together while handbuilding. 
   
3. This term (2 words) refers to a method of joining two pieces of clay together.
4. There are three basic stages of dryness for clay.
5. A method of handbuilding in which the clay is shaped by inserting the thumb of one hand into the clay and lightly pinching with the thumb and fingers while slowly rotating the ball in the palm of the other hand.
   
6. This is the technique of building ceramic forms by rolling out coils, or ropes, of clay and joining them together with the fingers or a tool.
   
7. This is the form of enhancing pottery constructions by using the score and slip technique to add decorative pieces of clay to the surface of the work
   
8. This is the method of creating designs in the clay with a needle tool to decorate a piece of pottery in progress.
9. 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.
   
10. A glass-like surface coating for ceramics that is used to decorate and seal the pores of the fired clay.
    
11. The term for ceramic ware that has not yet been fired.
    
12. The part of a pot that sits on the flat surface below the piece.

Also, be able to label the following tools: