Range and Kernel of a $3\times 3$ identity matrix? geometrically describe both.
the kernell would be just the zero vector, correct? and would also merely live in the 1st dimension, but geometrically speaking be non existent?
and for the range of the matrix, it would just be $\{(1,0,0),(0,1,0),(0,0,1)\}$. geometrically this would span the whole 3 dimensional space, correct?

The kernel is a subspace of the domain, regarding the matrix as a transformation.  So the kernel is written as $\{ (0, 0, 0) \}$.  Now, you can certainly regard this kernel as a space as well, but it is properly called 0-dimension, not non-existant.
Your range is correct.  All of $\mathbb{R}^3$.
