Read the following paragraph.
Another California city, San Francisco, is ranked among the most popular in the United States, but this one was settled farther north in a very different environment. San Francisco has a population of 800,000 within the city limits. Like San Diego and Los Angeles, San Francisco borders the Pacific Ocean. The city lies on a peninsula though, with the San Francisco bay on the opposite side of the ocean. The City by the Bay, as it is often labeled, is much cooler than those southern cities, not just because it is four hundred miles north, but also because it is almost completely surrounded by bodies of water. One interesting fact about San Francisco is that the city features the lowest average summer temperatures of any major American city, even though other cities, like Seattle and Minneapolis, are much farther north.
The author includes the information in this paragraph to--
provide
an argument for why you should not ever live in San Francisco.
describe
what the city of San Francisco looks like and where it is located.
illustrate
that San Francisco is the best place to live in the entire state of California.
show
that San Francisco’s cooler temperatures set it apart from LA and San Diego.