What's the point of a year or a season?

Question

What's the point of a year or a season?

Answer 1

well it is all about the time it takes for the Earth to travel round the Sun.

The Romans were the first to notice this and decided to make what is now known as the calender. This included make the seasons which stand for the different changes in the weather.

I think it was in the early 10th century (although this is most likely wrong) people started noticing that the years did not match up with the seasons and someone found out that ever four years another day would he to be added to calculate for this. This is what is now known as a "Leap Year"

Answer 2

as we are supposed to have 4 types of weather patterns, we split them up into 'seasons'.    Also we need to now how many years old we are so that is why we have a year (apart from the real scientific reason)

Answer 3

A solar year is the time taken for the earth to orbit the sun once. A calendar year is way of counting it accurately, and making comparisons of age and at what point in time events occurred.

A season is something which is more local, but an important measure of time. Only the temperate zones of the earth have the 4 seasons we recognise as spring, summer, autumn and winter, and these are reversed in the southern hemisphere. They are caused by the tilt of the earth's axis, but they give important time markers, such as when we expect certain plants to grow, vital in farming.

Answer 4

A year is a human interpretation of observed changes in our environment, specifically the weather.  The year is variable in length based on the system devised by which ever group has the say so.

A season is a length of time that is governed by the angle and rotation of the earth as it moves around the sun.

The point of a year or a season varies.

A year is simply a way to measure movement through space. It can be delineated by seasons and thus give rise to four parts in that year and give another form of measurement.

Because humans need to 'locate' themselves in space we use time.  Because we can see the changes in location of the sun and moon and we live in the weather environment that allows some of us on certain parts of the earth to delineate four seasons.  These are recognized by the equinox.

Answer 5

Im not sure, maybe just the way the earth spins, just like day and night?

Answer 6

I'm not sure for a year, but for a season I guess we don't want to stay in the same kind of weather for a whole year.

Answer 7

Well seasons are when things happen its all based on the sun and the tilt of the earth :)

Answer 8

So we know when to put our jumpers on !

Answer 9

If you don't know what year it is, you won't know how old you are, if you don't know how old you are, nobody will ever hire you, if nobody hires you, then you will be a lazy bumb...

If there are no seasons...then how would people know when to fertilize lawns, plant trees, prepare for winter, or plan trips.

This would make it very unconfortable, and a insecure way of life...especially wirth today's technology...

Answer 10

because we just DO! Get over yourself and stop asking obcene questions!

Answer 11

The practical point of having years can be seen in situations involving business, for example, where dating documents and meetings makes it easier to file and record and recall later!

The seasons are useful as a means of determining the kind of weather to expect for the purposes for farming. Here in the UK, we have 4 seasons, but when I live in Ghana as a child, we only had 2. The 'dry' and 'rainy' seasons. No guesses for how important it was to distinguish between the 2!

Other cultures, countries and races of people have different systems and reasons for the way they measure 'years' and 'seasons', but I can't tell you what they are I'm afraid.

What I can tell you is that the Western system for a year is very much a Catholic one. It's called the 'gregorian' system, and is named after Pope Gregory. If you go to link I gave you, you'll be able to find out more about it and decide for yourself what its purpose is..

Answer 12

Defining seasons was vital as life depended on growing food and breeding livestock.

Nature has it that these recurring events happen at the right season, and the year marks the repetition of the seasons.

Get years or seasons wrong and food production stops.

Answer 13

The earth orbits the sun and takes 365 days to do it and because the earth spins on an axis and it is slightly angled so this means that at different times of the year the earth is either moer closer to the sun or further away depending on what time of the year it is.

Answer 14

put double sided sticky tape on it.. Cats dont like the sticky feeling.. or when they get near it make noise.  ( an empty can with coins in it)

Answer 15

huh..i don't get it.  that's like saying whats the point in a frying pan, or a clock,  or side walks, books, close on our back, music, etc etc.....they all have a better point then this question does.

Answer 16

Is it to do with the fact that the circumference of the world is approximately 24000 miles hence an hour for every 1000 miles?  This alters very slightly therefore we have a leap year every 4 years thus keeping the seasons in order.  The four seasons also fall in with sun`s cycle.

Not a scientist, it`s just the way I see it

Answer 17

It is humankind's poor attempt to create time. No matter how hard we tried we still couldn't get it exactly right, thats why we've got some months with less days than others and why we've got a leap year now and again. We tend to think of time as linear, like a time line whereas scientists have considered the possibility that it's more horizontal, that there is only one moment... NOW, everything thats ever happened or is going to happen is happening now and rather than time marching on, it's actually us marching through the space time continuum... difficult to grasp i know! Whatever the right answer is, it would be rather difficult to change things now as our society, economy etc depends on our flawed concept of time.

Answer 18

There's no point to it. It's just the way it works: the result of the particular way that the Earth circles the Sun. As the Earth's orbit isn't perfectly circular, the distance between us and the Sun varies throughout the year (although it's the angle that matters most). So heat and light vary throughout the year, and life on Earth has evolved to that system. If there were no seasons, and temperature and light remained constant, animals and plants would have evolved differently.

Answer 19

To make sense of things. It helps our life planning and allows us to prepare for the changing seasons. The time element is governed by our planet.

Answer 20

NONE SAME s**+> DIFFERENT DAY, AT LEAST HERE IN FLORIDA!

Answer 21

it's nothing to do with current answers. however, half the year i'm hot and the other year i'm cold.

Answer 22

we can only function in terms of linear time we revolve around the seasons all comes down to the sun really.god this to heavy for me...figure it out let me know

Answer 23

Trie out this website that i searched in google...

http://www.12x30.net/months.html#0

Answer 24

The point, mainly is for organization.  Who knows when it was exactly first developed (the idea, that is), but in this day in age we'd be screwed without it.  The worlds' economy and function basically runs on time.  There's no difference between a minute and a year when it comes to world commerce.  Without a year the whole world would be subject to one big audit.  As for a season...who knows...I like them all!  It all comes down to numbers; the simplest way to keep facts.

Answer 25

Well taken in two part....

What's the point of a season ?

In breif as the Earth moves around the Sun, this axis stays always pointing in the same direction. This means that, during part of the year, the northern part of the Earth will lean more directly against the sun, and during other parts the southern part will.

Or

A period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field; "he celebrated his 10th season with the ballet company"; "she always ...

lend flavor to; "Season the chicken breast after roasting it"

One of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions; "the regular sequence of the seasons"

make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"

A recurrent time marked by major holidays; "it was the Christmas season"

What's the point of a year ? (big question)

The best anser I have found is    

A period of one revolution of the earth around the sun.

The period of one revolution with respect to the vernal equinox, averaging 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 45.68 seconds in 1955, is called a tropical, astronomical, equinoctial, natural, or solar year.

The period with respect to the stars, averaging 365 days 6 hours 9 minutes 9.55 seconds in 1955, is called a sidereal year. The period of revolution from perihelion to perihelion, averaging 365 days 6 hours 13 minutes 53.16 seconds in 1955, is an anomalistic year.

The period between successive returns of the sun to a sidereal hour angle of 80 degrees is called a fictitious or Besselian year.

A civil year is the calendar year of 365 days in common years, or 366 days in leap years.

A light year is a unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one year, 9.460 X 10E12 kilometers.

The term year is occasionally applied to other intervals such as an eclipse year, the interval between two successive conjunctions of the sun with the same node of the moon's orbit, a period averaging 346 days 14 hours 52 minutes 52.23 seconds in 1955, or a great or Platonic year, the period of one complete cycle of the equinoxes around the ecliptic, about 25,800 years.

Answer 26

Someone just had to be fussy.

Answer 27

Just the way the solar system works. im learning about this in science right now :)

Answer 28

The year is the time it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. A season is 13 weeks. March 21 to June 21 - Spring. June 22 to Sept 21 - Summer. Sept 22 to Dec 21 - Autumn. Dec 22 to March 20 - Winter. These are the points where the sun crosses the ecliptic, and reach zenith or nadir. Seasons are caused by the Earth's axis being inclined at 23 and a half degrees, and orbit ound the Sun. They are useful for measuring time, and when things happpen.

Answer 29

to keep track of stuff and be organized i guess....

i really dont see the point either... =/