Which statement is an example providing evidence that a scientific law is a description while a scientific theory is an explanation? (1 point)

Question

Laws are used in reference to something that will often be true, such as the use of the law of universal gravitation while theories are ideas that may be well founded or may have no evidence to support them, such as the use of the theory of relativity.
• Laws are rules that have been derived from repeated testing of theories, as in using the repeated testing of the theory of relativity to create a law associated with the potential for time travel.
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• Laws provide the physical principles of electric fields, while theories indicate how voltages will combine in a circuit.

Answer 1

The statement that best illustrates the difference between a scientific law as a description and a scientific theory as an explanation is:

"Laws are rules that have been derived from repeated testing of theories, as in using the repeated testing of the theory of relativity to create a law associated with the potential for time travel."

This statement clarifies that laws describe consistent results (rules derived from observations), while theories provide explanations of why those observations occur (derived from testing and understanding those results).