What is the difference between law and theory?

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Please, I am in 8th grade, and I have a quiz tomorrow, and I don't have enough information... what is the difference? Please make it simple. My notes say that laws can predict what is going to happen, but they don't explain why, and for theory, I have "the theory explains why things happen." PLEASE EXPLAIN!
Oh yeah, could you give me an example too?
 
The law tells what will happen. The theory is the reason explaining why the law applies. A law is what happens. A theory tells why what happens, happens.
 
The first guy is wrong. A law is known to be true. 1+1 = 2 is known to be true so it can be considered a law, although nobody calls it that since it's so simple. A theory is thought to be true but hasn't been proven. Like the theory of evolution. There is no way for us to verify that evolution is true, but there are a lot of facts to support it's truth.
 
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