Earth's longest mountain range is underwater

The mid-ocean ridge is the longest mountain range on Earth at 40,389 miles, and about 90 percent of it is under the ocean.

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Why it is true

It wraps around the globe like the seam of a baseball. The ridge forms where Earth's great tectonic plates push apart.

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