With vs without using LINQ query operators when enumerating elements from XML with no filtering

In the MSDN documentation for the XElement.Elements(XName) method, there is the following example:

XElement xmlTree = new XElement("Root",
    new XElement("Type1", 1),
    new XElement("Type1", 2),
    new XElement("Type2", 3),
    new XElement("Type2", 4),
    new XElement("Type2", 5)
);

IEnumerable<XElement> elements =
    from el in xmlTree.Elements("Type2")
    select el;
foreach (XElement el in elements)
    Console.WriteLine(el);

Is there a difference between that and the following, which produces the same result?

foreach (XElement el in xmlTree.Elements("Type2"))
    Console.WriteLine(el);

Is there a reason the query operators were used here?