The eruption of Mount Tambora _1._____ years ago killed perhaps 100,000 people.
However, the impact on the wider _2._____ was even greater;
the eruption changed the _3._____ of the planet.
After a volcanic eruption, sulphate particles in the earth's atmosphere _4._____ some sunlight back into space, and also _5._____ some sunlight. Scientists estimate that Tambora's sulphate veil caused a _6._____ drop in rainfall and cooled the planet by _7._____.
Nobody can say when a similarly catastrophic eruption will happen next,
but it is a _8._____ that one will happen.
