Hypothesis: An educated guess on the natural world possibilities
Theory: An explanation of the natural world aspect
Law: An aspect of how the natural world reacts under a specific circumstance
Hypotheses, theories, and laws all have natural world tests in common. Each of them are trying to provide the steps to guarantee a valid experimentation. You cannot have a valid experimentation without each of these. However, fact is also a need.
The answer you are looking for is under option A
Uniformitarianism- the theory that changes in the earths crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes