"The Himalayan mountain range and Tibetan plateau have formed as a result of the collision between the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate which began 50 million years ago and continues today. 225 million years ago (Ma) India was a large island situated off the Australian coast and separated from Asia by the Tethys Ocean." (https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap3-Plate.../Continental-Collision)
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I am pretty sure that the actual answer hides in the question itself, therefore I'd choose the second option. According to the phrase "he more successful of the two", it definitely should be B. Competition.
Energy moves through the ecosystem when one organism eats another
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The goal of mitigation is to avoid significant human interference with the climate system, and “stabilize greenhouse gas levels in a timeframe sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.