Answer:
The correct answer is B
Explanation:
A. Earthquakes in the United States are much more likely to occur in the Midwestern portions and the east coasts.
Wrong. You can think about the San Andreas Fault, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the 1989 World Series Earthquake in the Bay Area. All of them were in the western coast.
B. The western portion is dominated by geological events, whereas the Great Plains and eastern portions are dominated by atmospheric events.
True
Western portion: Geologial events, like earthquakes, as i said in a
Great plains: Lots of tornados in the summer
Eastern portion: Hurricanes in the summer(south), snowstorms, nor'easters in the winter(north).
C. The heaviest population centers are in the Midwest and western mountainous portions
Along the coasts(NY, LA).
D. The eastern coasts are dominated by the largest occurrence of tornadoes.
That is the Midwest.
E. The path of most hurricanes is from the southwest and all the way to the Rocky Mountains.
No, usually in the south.
