Image of 'turquoise'. Example Sentences Including 'turquoise'. She wore a cream headscarf with flowers of scarlet, violet and turquoise. Congregations of wooden boats are moored in the middle of the lake, small islands of bright turquoise in the dark water. They drove past a line of decrepit turquoise trucks with large yellow cranes on their backs.
According to The University of New Mexicoâs Health Sciences Center research you burn 15 calories per 3 flights of stairs (average flight of stairs being 12 steps). That means for every stair you climb you burn 0.42 calories on average (based on 150 [68 kg] to 160 [72.5 kg] pound person. The more you weight the more calories you burn). As a comparison, walking only burns 0.2 calories per step, which means you need to make twice as many steps to burn the same amount of calories.
Â© 2014 The Georgia Center for Assessment Grade 8 Read Passages A and B. Then respond to the questions that follow. Passage A: The Physics of Skydiving Skydiving is not for everyone. But even if you never plan on jumping from a plane, it is an activity that can be cool to think about.First, the plane you take off in typically climbs to upwards of 14,000 feet above the ground.Then, through an open door in the plane, you see something like this: Kind of makes your palms begin to sweat just looking at this, huh? As this picture shows, the next step is to jump.irst, the plane you take off in typically climbs to upwards of 14,000 feet above the ground. Then, through an open door in the plane, you see something like this: Kind of makes your palms begin to sweat just looking at this, huh? As this picture shows, the next step is to jump.