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Basics
Processes
Vocabulary
Pottery
Potters
100
Only type of rock that will stretch
What is clay?
100
slab
What is a flat piece of clay?
100
Incised
What is cut into the clay?
100
A slab pot
What is a piece of pottery formed by adding flat pieces of clay together?
100
Baskets
What is the first potters discovered could be used to push clay into to make early containers.
200
Erosion
What is the way (process) in which clay is formed from rock?
200
coil
What is a snakelike piece of clay?
200
kiln
What is the machine you fire clay in?
200
poured ceramics
What is pottery that is made by pouring liquid clay in a mold?
200
Southwest Pueblo potters
What is the group of Native Americans most famous for their use of clay and pottery making?
300
Common place where clay can be found in nature
What is a cave?
300
slurry
What is liquid clay?
300
Fire
What is to bring clay up to a temperature to make it permanently hard (vitrify)?
300
wheel-thrown pottery
What is pottery made by using a potter's wheel and no molds
300
Use only what clay they need and do not waste the clay.
What is All wise potters? (Especially the philosophy of pueblo potters!)
400
Air bubbles
What is makes pieces of pottery explode in the kiln?
400
Cross hatch and slurry
What is the process for joining two pieces of clay?
400
clay relief
What is an art form made of clay that is basically designed to see from one side, that has incised or additions to the surface?
400
Porcelain pottery
What is a type of very fine pottery discovered by the Chinese. One of the most expensive types of pottery
400
Maria Martinez
What is one of the most famous pueblo potters in the United States
500
greenware, bisqueware, glazeware
What is the three stages of pottery?
500
"throwing"
What is making pottery on the potter's wheel?
500
bisqueware
What is clay that has been fired only once in a kiln?
500
Raku pottery
What is a special type of clay pottery that is fired outside and where the metals in the burn material attach to the clay.
500
Good use of design, art elements, and process.
What is a skill that all great potters strive for?