Because water is a very very very very very unusual substance ... It's
the only known substance whose solid form is less dense than its liquid
form near the same temperature.
In other words, water is the only known substance for which a solid lump
of it floats in a liquid glass of it.
If that were not true ... if the behavior of the density of water around its
freezing temperature were the same as the density of all other known
substances ... then life on Earth would be impossible.
Think about that for a while ! Ya gotta admire whoever it was that designed water !
D. Gravitational potential
The Earth orbits the sun constantly, continuously, and all the time. " 24/7/365 "
From the sun's point of view, it takes the Earth roughly 365 and 1/4 days
to make the complete trip, all the way around one time. That's the length
of time that we call "one year".
When you talk about orbiting in one month, you're thinking of the moon
orbiting the Earth. THAT length of time is about 27.32 days.
