One of the scientific processes tropical rainforests are involved in is the carbon cycle. First off, what is carbon? Carbon is a part of oxygen and plants rely on carbon and sunlight to make food and grow. Carbon is pretty much a part of a plant and when plants die either their fossils form and thousands of years later we burn these fossil fuels or animals eat the dead plants, either way more carbon gets realeased into the atmosphere. The reason the carbon cycle refers back to the tropical rainforest biome is because what does the rainforest have a lot of that produces carbon? Trees. It is critical for us to take care of our rainforests because the trees in the rainforest give off carbon while going through respiration, after they decay, or even if their remains are eaten by animals. If deforestation keeps continuing this could dramatically lose a lot of needed.
The carbon cycle is important to the orgnanisms in the tropical rainforest biome because many animals in the rainforest eat the plants as a source of food. If there wasn't carbon then the plants wouldn't be able to go through photosynthesis and grow, eventually they would die, this would cause the whole food chain to be ruined. The food chain would be ruined because the animals that eat the plants wouldn't have a source of food and die, then the plant eaters' predators wouldn't have a source of food also and die and so on. In the end all the animals would die because the plants are the primary producers and need carbon to grow and live. So as you can see, without carbon our whole planet and everything in it wouldn't be able to function.
The way that matter and energy flow through an ecosystem are very different. Energy flows through an ecosystem one way, from the start of the producers (plants) to the line of consumers eating one another. Matter is recycled within and between ecosystems, with living and non- living things.
