Although many would suggest oxygen, and this answer is true for all larger animals, a review of all living organisms suggests some that live in the absence of oxygen:
Oxygen! simple's we need no other chemical in the air apart from it apart from in very small quantities, that are most often found in our food
The essential atmosphere gas that is essential for human survival is oxygen.
Air, (and specific: oxygen)
OXYGEN
Stratosphere is the layer of atmosphere which contains the gas noted for having sharp clean smell. The name of the gas is ozone and is present as ozone layer in the atmosphere.
Water vapour.
Helium is a specific gas in it's own right and the first on the periodic table. It can be blended with any other gas and is a small percentage of the gasses in our atmosphere.
Earth's atmosphere is about 0.035% CO2. Since the atmosphere is just a thin layer of gas surrounding the earth, CO2 is a much, much smaller fraction of the earth itself.
Because hydrogen gas is less dense than air(mostly nitrogen and oxygen), and the less dense gas flows to go above the more dense(and escape the atmosphere).
Chlorine.
The essential gas is oxygen...
oxygen
The ozone gas is very important for survival for human life. It is because protects us from the harmful UV rays.
nitrogen
Oxygen is the gas we breathe. It is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. It is essential to humans' survival.
This gas is carbon dioxide.
Gas. The vapors freely travel through the air and eventually disappear.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main gas produced by human activity that is causing the atmosphere to grow warmer.
Another critical gas is oxygen gas (O2). Much of life on this planet is aerobic, meaning oxygen is required for survival. Oxygen serves as a key constituent in the process that releases the energy stored in food.Oxygen is not essential to all life. In fact there are some organisms that die in the presence of oxygen. There was once a time when there was no oxygen in our atmosphere and only anaerobic organisms lived. Water is essential to all known life but not oxygen.
carbon dioxide
Molecular nitrogen gas, N2, is 78% of Earth's atmosphere and does not affect human respiration in any negative way.Molecular nitrogen gas, N2, is 78% of Earth's atmosphere and does not affect human respiration in any negative way.