From primitive bacteria that produced oxygen as a waste product.
Around 2.2 billion years ago, Earth's atmosphere contained very little oxygen, at levels less than 1% of what we have today. This period is known as the "Great Oxidation Event," when early photosynthetic organisms started releasing oxygen as a byproduct, gradually changing the composition of the atmosphere over millions of years.
No. Earth itself is "only" about 4.6 billion years old. The first life may have emerged about 4 billion years ago.
The transition from anoxic to oxic conditions on Earth occurred around 2.4 billion years ago during the Great Oxidation Event. This event marked the significant increase in atmospheric oxygen levels, leading to the formation of an oxygen-rich environment on Earth.
Prokaryotes populated Earth for about 1.5 billion years before the evolution of eukaryotic cells, which are more complex. Eukaryotic cells are believed to have evolved around 2 billion years ago through a process called endosymbiosis.
2 billion years ago ... You Plato user huh....
The Carboniferous period, during which oxygen amounted to 35% of the atmosphere by volume (this was around 300 million years ago). Nowadays the amount is 20.95%.
Oxygen was not present in the Earth's atmosphere 3.6 billion years ago. The atmosphere at that time was primarily composed of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, methane, and water vapor. Oxygen began to accumulate in the atmosphere around 2.5 billion years ago as a result of photosynthetic organisms.
the earth
Earth formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago, not 50 billion years ago or 5 billion years ago. This age estimate is based on radiometric dating of meteorites and rocks on Earth.
Earth did not exist 700 billion years ago, nor did the universe. Earth is about 4.6 billion years old.
No, the earth wasn't around 7 billion years ago. Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago.
Oxygen
Large amounts of oxygen gas first appeared on Earth's atmosphere around 2.4 billion years ago during the Great Oxidation Event. This event marked a significant increase in the levels of atmospheric oxygen, which eventually led to the development of aerobic life forms.
The Earth is estimated to have formed about 4.5 billion years ago from the solar nebula.
The Earth is believed to have coalesced as a solid body roughly 4.5 billion years ago.
4.5 billion years ago, Earth was a young planet still forming, but life had not yet developed. The earliest forms of life, such as single-celled organisms, are believed to have appeared around 3.5 billion years ago.
The earth became habitable about 4.3 billion years ago and the first cell appeared. When the earth was young, there wasn't enough oxygen in the atmosphere but bacteria produced oxygen and ice age started about 3.5 billion years ago. Ice steadily melted and multicellular lives appeared about 2.7 billion years ago just after the end of ice age.