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Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
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High Pressure

A condition of great force exerted over an area, often associated with deep sea environments, weather systems, or geological processes.

Low Temperature

A condition where the environment or a specific object has a temperature below the average or expected.

Subduction Zone

A region of Earth's crust where two tectonic plates converge, and one plate is forced underneath the other into the mantle, often leading to volcanic activity and earthquakes.

Accretionary Prism

A wedge-shaped mass of sediment and rock scraped off the top of a downgoing tectonic plate and accreted onto the overriding plate at a convergent plate boundary.

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