Ashfaq is asked to explain the difference between a hypothesis, theory, and scientific law, which are terms used when discussing experiments, research, and scientific methodology. He knows that each term has a distinct meaning, and the terms are not interchangeable. Match the descriptive phrases to the correct term. do not become laws tentative scientific explanation that can be tested by further observation or by experimentation well-tested explanation for a range of phenomena highly reliable scientific explanation of events in the natural world that unifies many repeated observations concise, specific descriptions of how some aspects of the natural world are expected to behave in a certain situation may still be useful even when evidence does not support it ideally should be tested by an experiment in which only one variable is changed