how does the carbon/oxygen cycle work in the rainforest?
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CO2 + H2O --> CH2O + O2\n read the attached webpage
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Yes, during photosynthesis, plants and trees take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the atmosphere.  For this reason, planting trees is encouraged !
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Carbon combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. Carbon combines with water and oxygen to form carbohydrates. It does this because there is an energy advantage to do this; the end state is a lower energy state than the initial state.
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2 stages of photosynthesis work together to produce\nglucose by..... first capturing the sun's energy then in the chloroplasts, water and carbon dioxide undergo chemical reactions which produce sugar including glucose..........
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Plants.\n\nThey breathe in CO2 and breathe out Oxygen
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Trees are phototrophs, they produce their own food by using carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight.
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Carbon dioxide is used by the plant to produce glucose in the dark reactions of photosynthesis.  Without carbon dioxide the plants would be rather usless in the food chain.\n\n\nAll answers are correct.  Producers are the source of food for the next trophic level up.  Energy transfer is about 10% from level to level, with the rest going off as heat.  It would be bad news if there were more organisms above the others in the pyramid.  this would help lead to total extinction of life as we know it.
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In photosynthesis, plants convert light into chemical energy. This energy is thus used to turn carbon dioxide into carbohydrate releasing oxygen as a byproduct. That is why many plans to fix global warming such as the Kyoto Protocol aim to increase the number of forested areas through so-called carbon sinks.
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Yup, oxygen oxidises our bodies. As we are carbon based lifeform, we lose carbon when we breathe out - hence, carbon dioxide.
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Well, technically plants spend carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.I think... I would think that since most plants continue to grow until they die, that the bigger they get, the more carbon dioxide they use, and the more oxygen they produce.
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To put it simply, they're opposites.  Respiration consumes glucose and oxygen and releases energy and carbon dioxide.  Photosynthesis uses sunlight (i.e. energy) and consumes carbon dioxide and produces oxygen and glucose (i.e. stored energy).  In other words, photosynthesis is the process of storing energy and respiration is the process of releasing that energy.
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Photosynthesis does *not* produce carbon dioxide. Photosynthesis uses energy from the sun to combine CO2 and H2O to make glucose. Respiration breaks down glucose for energy and gives off CO2.
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aerobic respiration works by breaking down glucose into carbon dioxide and water molecules.  This provides the cell a chemical form of energy called ATP which is used for all cellular functions.  The way it works is by a series of chemical reactions that creates ATP molecules by breaking bonds in the glucose.  It is often called a step wise reaction because it take several steps.  The reason for this is so all the engery is not realeased at onces creating a lot of heat.  (For example burning sugar realeases all the enrgey quickly, but creates a lot of wasted heat)  First the gluclose is broken down into pyruciv acid in the cytoplasam, which creates 2 ATP, then in the mitochondria it is broken down further sending molecueles with Hydrogen atoms to the Electron Transport Chain where oxygen is needed.  This is why it is call aerobic respiration.  This is  the main ATP (energy) producing step.  Overall for each glucose molecule you get a net gain of about 32 ATPs I believe.  \n\nIf you want more details, just look it up in a biology book.  I am sure there are great diagrams you could look at to help see the process.
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Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen.
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One of the major gases is inert-Argon, and doesnt really seem to cycle-it makes up about 1%.  The primary gas is nitrogen, a small amount of which is fixed in the roots of plants (or by symbiotic organisms in those roots) and lifeforms such as blue-green algae-it makes up about 78%.  The greatest cycling gas is oxygen, which makes up about 21%.  Free oxygen, as found in our atmosphere, is extremely rare and likely would not be found in the absence of life-Oxygen in very reactive-many elements and compounds readily oxidize, such as iron turning to rust.  On Earth, plants take in carbon dioxide and split it, using the carbon to build things such as carbohydrates- the oxygen is releases, and used by aerobic lifeforms for respiration.  The level of carbon dioxide is about 0.1%- This is also very unusual, since in other planets with an atmosphere, carbon dioxide is a major gas...again, low CO2 is probably a sign of life.  The CO2 is low because the plants use it-it is returnd to the atmosphere by respiration.
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A rain forest is a forest that has a specific canopy structure, with organized biome levels based on altitude from the ground-In addition, a rain forest receives a a great deal of water, and has no cold season, though it often has a dry season.  A forest, which can include a rain forest, is any ecosystem with trees as the dominant feature.  A jungle is an ecosystem which grows into an area of rainforest after the trees have been killed (by disease, deforestation, or rarely fire).  It is characterized by nearly impenatrable undergrowth, short and rapidly growing shrubs and trees, and generally rich in opportunistic plant life.  Contrary to popular belief, there isnt a great deal of undergrowth in a rain forest, and it is generally easier to walk through than, for example, the forests in Kentucky and Tennessee.
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Carbon dioxide from air, water & minerals from soil.\n\nA simple answer for a complex process!