At the same temperature and pressure, neon is more ideal than water vapor because neon's atoms are only attracted by weak dispersion forces, while water vapor's molecules are attracted by relatively stronger hydrogen bonds.
the newspaper one is a chemical change because the chemicals in the paper have reacted with something and turned a different color. the wax one is a physical change because it is a change in the phase of matter, which is always a physical change (still the same substance chemically)