Example · Elementary
Terms
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| hypothesis (in science) |
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“Bean plants grow taller with more hours of light” is a hypothesis, because it is a prediction that an experiment can test and could show to be false.
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| theory (in science) |
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The hypothesis “Bean plants grow taller with more hours of light each day” is not a theory, because no body of evidence supports it yet.
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| law (in science) |
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The hypothesis “Bean plants grow taller with more hours of light each day” is not a law, because it has not been observed to hold in every tested case.
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| conjecture |
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The hypothesis “Bean plants grow taller with more hours of light each day” is not a conjecture, because experiments, not proofs, decide it.
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