Question

Read the paragraph.

Forests are more than just a pretty addition to the landscape. Forests help the environment by soaking up carbon dioxide, conserving soil, and preventing flooding. Forests help people by providing a place to live and by providing jobs. Over 300 million people worldwide live in forests, and over 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their jobs.

Which best revises a sentence from the paragraph by adding an appropriate transition?

Similarly, forests are more than just a pretty addition to the landscape.
For example, forests help the environment by soaking up carbon dioxide, conserving soil, and preventing flooding.
However, forests help people by providing a place to live and by providing jobs.
To summarize, over 300 million people worldwide live in forests, and over 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their jobs.

Answer 1

For example, forests help the environment by soaking up carbon dioxide, conserving soil, and preventing flooding.

Reason: "For example" appropriately introduces concrete examples that support the opening claim that forests are more than just a pretty addition to the landscape.