Water's states of matter include steam, liquid water, and ice. what about water is the same in these states? what can you conclude about what changes and what does not change during a change of state?

These states ofwater are simply physical changes. It has stayed the compound H2O throughout all of them. It had changes in phases but it never changed to anything but water.

An  atom  (ours, not carroll's) consists of a positively charged  nucleus, surrounded by one or more negatively charged particles called  electrons. the positive charges equal the negative charges, so the atom has no overall charge; it is electrically neutral. most of an atom's mass is in its nucleus; the mass of an electron is only 1/1836 the mass of the lightest nucleus, that of hydrogen. although the nucleus is heavy, it is quite small compared with the overall size of an atom. the radius of a typical atom is around 0.1 to 0.25 nanometres (nm), whereas the radius of a nucleus is about 10-6  nm.  *  if an atom were enlarged to the size of the earth, its nucleus would be only 200 feet in diameter and could easily rest inside a small football stadium.read more on -

Wavelength divides in half and speed stays the same.