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Sumida Aquarium

Sumida Aquarium is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sumida Aquarium rather than just read about it. In short: Sumida Aquarium (ja:すみだ水族館, Sumida Suizokukan) is a public aquarium located on the 5th and 6th floors of the Tokyo Skytree in Sumida, Tokyo. It opened in 2012 at the same time as Tokyo Skytree itself.

Key takeaways

Sumida Aquarium belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Sumida Aquarium to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Sumida Aquarium from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Sumida Aquarium (ja:すみだ水族館, Sumida Suizokukan) is a public aquarium located on the 5th and 6th floors of the Tokyo Skytree in Sumida, Tokyo. It opened in 2012 at the same time as Tokyo Skytree itself. It is managed by Orix real estate corporation.

Exhibits

According to the aquarium's website, the aquarium uses artificial seawater in all of their tanks, making it easier to sustain the aquarium year-round and removing the costly requirement to transport natural seawater inland. This is done using a seawater production system developed by Nagaoka University of Technology and Taisei Corporation. The Ogasawara Sea Tank is a tank 6 metres (20 ft) deep designed to represent the ocean around the Ogasawara Islands, a World Natural Heritage site. The aquarium worked with the village of Ogasawara to create the exhibit, and more than 50 different species of fish, including sand tiger sharks, were transported from the islands. At the time of its opening, the aquarium displayed a tank of 634 spotted garden eels, representing the 634 metres of the Tokyo Sky Tree. Later, gorgasia and whitespotted garden eels were added to the exhibit. The penguin pool in the atrium is 24 metres (79 ft) wide and 14 metres (46 ft) deep, making it one of the largest indoor penguin pools in Japan. It is home to around 50 Magellanic penguins. The Edorium exhibits goldfish, and is designed with an Edo theme. Following renovations in 2016, the Edorium is now one of the largest goldfish exhibits in Japan. Tanks 100 metres (330 ft) long exhibit about 1,000 goldfish of over 20 varieties.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Sumida Aquarium

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Sumida Aquarium claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Sumida Aquarium before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Sumida Aquarium ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Sumida Aquarium

In research: Sumida Aquarium appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sumida Aquarium in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sumida Aquarium is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2012 establishments in Japan, Amusement parks opened in 2012, Aquaria in Tokyo, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sumida Aquarium outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Sumida Aquarium in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Sumida Aquarium means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Sumida Aquarium in simple terms?

Why does Sumida Aquarium matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Sumida Aquarium?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Sumida Aquarium.