Question

In science, a broad idea that has been repeatedly verified so as to give scientists great confidence that it represents reality is called:____________

Answer 1

In science, a broad idea that has been repeatedly verified so as to give scientists great confidence that it represents reality is called "a theory".

Explanation:

In science, the interpretation of a feature of the organic world that can be tested in repeat manner and analysed by applying agreed tests validation methods, calculation and observation in according to the scientific method, such process is called as a theory in science.

The difference lie between a theory and a hypothesis. Because hypothesis is an "educated guess". Overall it is either a proposed interpretation of an observed phenomenon, or a logical inference of a possible causal association between several phenomena.