(b) there is no ommission of a letter. Youâre right âtareâ does mean weight, but âtearâ has two meanings and two pronunciations: (a) in this example above, âtearâ means to tear a piece of paper or other item, meaning âripâ â in this case, the word is pronounced the same as âhairâ.
The mid-ocean ridge system is the most extensive chain of mountains on earth, but more than 90% of this mountain range lies in the deep ocean. The mid-ocean ridge wraps around the globe for more than 65,000 km like the seam of a baseball.
When oceanic and oceanic plates diverge it creates mid ocean ridges!