EXPLANATION TEXT PART 1

 WHAT IS AN EXPLANATION TEXT? An explanation text tells your audience how something works or why something happens. Explanations detail and logically describe the stages in a process, such as the water cycle, or how a steam engine works. Other examples could be how a law is made, or why we blink when we sneeze.

Generic Structure of Explanation Text

– General statement
General statement; stating the phenomenon issues which are to be explained.
– Sequenced of explanation
Sequenced explanation; stating a series of steps which explain the phenomena.

Tsunami

    Tsunami occurs when major fault under the ocean floor suddenly slips. The displaced rock pushes water above it like a giant paddle, producing powerful water waves at the ocean surface. The ocean waves spread out from the vicinity of the earthquake source and move across the ocean until they reach the coastline, where their height increases as they reach the continental shelf, the part of the earth crust that slopes, or rises, from the ocean floor up to the land.

    A tsunami washes ashore with often disastrous effects such as severe flooding, loss of lives due to drowning and damage to property. 

    A tsunami is a very large sea wave that is generated by a disturbance along the ocean floor. This disturbance can be an earthquake, a landslide, or a volcanic eruption. A tsunami is undetectable far out in the ocean, but once it reaches shallow water, this fast traveling wave grows very large.

1. Tsunami happens because ....

    Tsunami happens because major fault under the ocean floor suddenly slips.

2. What are the impacts of tsunami ?

    The impacts of Tsunami are disastrous effects such as severe flooding, loss of lives due to drowning,

    and damage to property.

3. Mention the disturbance of tsunami!

    The disturbance of tsunami is that the ocean waves spread out from the vicinity of the earthquake

    source and move across the ocean until they reach the coastline, where their height increases as they

    reach the continental shelf, the part of the earth crust that slopes, or rises, from the ocean floor up to 

    the land.

4. From second paragraph we know that ....

    From the second paragraph we know that tsunami makes unfortunate event.

5. The text mostly tells us about ....

    The text mostly tells us about how and why tsunami happens.