You need to test the hypothesis several times and record all results. Once you obtain the same results several times, I think that means its a theory
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One of the difference is that the ice cube is solid and gas is not.
A tropism.
A plant movement to a light stimulus is a phototropism.
A plant movement to water stimuli is a hydrotropism.
etc. etc. :)