Viking Burial Ships

Most vikings were not buried in our traditioal ways, they were sent out to sea in the boat they had had in life. Along with the dead viking would be everything they might need in the next life. In 1880 a viking ship was found and dug up in Norway. The archaeologists called it the Gokstad Longship, cause it was found near the village of Gokstad. They found the skeleton of a man, he was dressed in fancy clothes and had lots of gold and jewelry around him. He had been burried with several horses, dogs and a peacock. And also there were some extra household items. Another boat was found in 1904 and it had two women burried in it. It is thought that one of the women was a queen and the other was her serving maid.

How Vikings Navigated

       Vikings didn't have a GPS, they didn't really even have a map. They had to navigate useing experiance, instinct, stars and landmarks. If you wanted to get to Greenland from Norway you would start by heading due south until you reach Europe. Then you sail west along the coast until you come to Great Britain. You follow the islands east coast until you come to a group of islands called the Faeroes. You should then follow the curve of these islnds until you come to Iceland. You will replenish any food that you need and then sail due west from Iceland, Greenland is so big that you can't miss it.
     That is baiscly how Vikings got around, they would use the stars and the sun in order to know which direction they were going.

Hydroponics

          Hydroponics is a way to grow plants without using any soil. There are advantages and disadvantages to using hydroponics. Some of the advantages are that you can grow plants with out any space, you can grow them indoors and all year round. Hydroponically-grown plants can be grown inexpensivly. There is little wasted water and it doesn't require hard backbreaking work. Now that might sound great but there are also disadvantages to it as well. the intitial set up cost of of hydroponic-growing is expensive. If you have a power outage your plants will be effected, water based microorganisms can be intrudced easily and technical knowledge is requird to plant using hydroponics.

Vikings

     Yestereday I watched a history video about vikings so today I am going to recap it. The viking were considered the strongest warriors in their time. One of the biggest reasons they were so strong was because ever since they were teens young vikings warriers would row their own boats, they could row for miles and this built up a ton of strength. Young warriors were also taught to play the game "catch the spear" it started with a stick but as they got older it would progress to a spear. The game was to throw spears at each other and catch them and then throw them back as fast as you could. The vikings survived by forming raids on near by towns, they would sail up in their black longboats and steal as much as they could. Their are different guesses as to why the boats were black. But the reason is that they had to put tar on the boat to keep it from falling apart, and the tar was black. When vikings raided they would try and avoided head on battles. But when they were caught in this scenario they usually won. They started it off by having their champion challange any one of the enemies. After the champion won the enemy would start to become disheartend and scared, then the vikings would let loose their beserkers. Besrerkers were.... Crazy. There is no other way to put it. They would go in to a 5 step process called the beserkers rage. First they would strip off their clothes to show that they weren't scared of the enemy. Then they would start howling or makeing some other animal nosie. Third they would start danceing and biteing their shield which was lined in iron. At this point you have a crazy guy without any clothes on, foaming blood from his mouth and only then would he charge at you. When they went in to their rage, there were basicaly couldn't feel pain. You could shoot them but they wouldn't die. The only way to kill them was a loss of blood, a direct shot to their heart or a major blow to the head.

Photosynthesis

                 Photosynthesis is the process where a plant turns light from the sun into usable energy. During the process of photosynthesis carbon dioxide enters the plant through tiny openings called Stomata. The carbon dioxide cycles through and the plant dumps out oxygen as a waste product. The opening and closing of the stomata are controled by cells named guard cells. Guard cells open and close based on different variable in the plant. Heat, mositure, plant chemestry and more. Chlorophyll is also vital to photosynthesis, chlorophyll alows the energy to be used in the plant and it turns the plant the green. That is pretty much all the different things that need to be present in order for photosynthesis to occur.

A simplified formula of Photosynthesis is

Carbon Dioxide + Water + Light (Energy) = Glucose + Oxygen

Catagorizing Fruit

A lot of fruit falls under the catagory of simple fruit. Simple fruits are then seperated between, fleshy fruit and dry fruit.

                                                            SIMPLE FRUIT



      DRY FRUIT                                                                      FLESHY FRUIT

  Milkweek Pod
  Chestnut tree                              DRUPES                   BERRIES                            POMES
  Maple Tree                                Peach                           Orange                                Pear
  Corn                                          Cherry                          Grapes                                Apple
                                                    Plum                             Watermelon







The other types of fruit that aren't simple are called Compound fruits.




                                                            COMPUND FRUITS



     AGGREGATE FRUIT                                                                   MULTIPLE FRUITS

   Strawberry                                                                                      Mulberry
   Blackberry                                                                                      Fig
   Raspberry                                                                                       Pineapple

Fruit

What is Fruit???

          When you hear the word fruit you are probably thinking of those delcious.... fruits, that we eat! But there is so much more to fruit than just the stuff we eat. By definition the fruit is the flowering part of a  plant that contains the seeds. There are fruits that we eat, Apple, Plums, Pear, Lemon, Banana and there are fruit that we don't eat, Milkweed pods, Holly, Ivy, Mistletoe and Suicide tree fruit (I wouldn't eat that either!) Tomorrow I will post about the different catagories of fruit.