Background/Fun Facts
There is a singular definition of the "Arctic" (true/false)
What is False?
REM stands for this
What is Rare Earth Minerals?
This counterplan argues that Alaska should act instead of the U.S. federal government.
What is the Alaska counterplan?
This Arctic Council agreement coordinates international response to plane and ship accidents.
What is the 2011 Search and Rescue Agreement?
This key element of policy debate outlines what the affirmative plans to do.
What is the plan text?
Average temperature during the warmest month (July)
What is 10-12 degrees?
Space Aff's could be bad because
What is there is not enough evidence about it?
The DA that warns against improving U.S.-Russia relations because it signals weakness to adversaries.
What is the Appeasement DA?
This economic activity could increase fivefold as polar ice melts.
What is commercial shipping or maritime trade?
This team gives two speeches in a row
Who is the negation?
Out of the roughly 4 million Arctic natives, 500,000 are..
Who are the Indigenous People?
This U.S. department manages permitting and leasing for minerals in areas like ANWR.
What is the Department of the Interior (DOI)?
This disadvantage claims missile defense expansion in the Arctic undermines nuclear balance.
What is the Strategic Stability DA?
Russia is expanding this fleet to navigate Arctic sea routes to Asia.
What are nuclear-powered icebreakers?
This is an appeal to an audiences sense of logic to make themselves sound more convincing
What is logos?
People come to the Arctic to see this
What is the Northern Lights?
This military location in Alaska could be reopened as part of a military infrastructure affirmative.
What is Adak Naval Air Facility?
One example of a NEG argument
What is a DA, CP, K, T?
This United Nations agency regulates shipping and developed the Polar Code.
What is the International Maritime Organization (IMO)?
This type of Kritik focuses on the harms of military or security-oriented thinking.
What is a Security K?
Name 2 out of the 8 countries that have territory north of the Arctic Circle
Where is United States (Alaska), Russia, Canada, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland?
This proposal would connect Russia and the U.S. through a massive infrastructure project across the Bering Sea.
What is the Bering Sea bridge or tunnel?
This DA says Arctic investments could reduce U.S. attention and resources toward Asia-Pacific security.
What is the Indo-Pacific Tradeoff DA?
About 20% of this Arctic population group maintains traditional cultural and aesthetic practices.
Who are Indigenous peoples?
The AFF team commonly does this to a counterplan
hint: Means do Both