Ceramics Terms Final Exam 6th period

What is ceramics?

The procedure of forming and shaping clay by squeezing the clay between your thumb and fingers.

A technique that uses long ropes of clay to make pottery:

The roughening of the surface of wet clay in order to attach another piece of wet clay

A fluid mixture of clay and water

A stage in the drying process of clay when the clay is pliable but strong enough to carve

Unfired pottery is called...

The process which changes clay into ceramic

An insulated box which is heated to fire pottery and clay sculpture

A term applied to the first firing before glazing