To pick up the bits and pieces means to recover or clean up after a failure or disaster of some sort. It is often used in the context of cleaning up a mess made by someone else.
The movement of material from one place to another place is called erosion.
The term is sediment. Sediment is made up of small pieces of rock, mineral, and organic material that have been broken down by weathering and erosion processes.
The process of picking up and moving rocks is called rock lifting or rock relocation.
Picking up sediment and moving it to another area is known as sediment transport.
No, picking up a paper clip with a magnet is not a physical change. It is a demonstration of magnetic force and involves no permanent alteration to the paper clip's structure or composition.
Picking Up the Pieces was created on 2000-01-01.
Picking Up the Pieces - album - was created in 2003.
Picking Up the Pieces - Paloma Faith song - was created in 2011.
Shattered Dreams Picking Up the Pieces - 1988 is rated/received certificates of: UK:PG
Dragon Ball Z - 1989 Picking up the Pieces was released on: USA: 1996
Sister Wives - 2010 Picking Up the Pieces was released on: USA: 21 July 2013
Couples Therapy - 2012 Picking Up the Pieces - 3.8 was released on: USA: August 2013
Reynolds City Picking Up the Pieces - 2009 was released on: USA: 29 November 2009 (internet)
Erosion.
Picking Up the Pieces - 1985 TV was released on: USA: 22 October 1985 Portugal: 19 December 1987
Shattered Dreams Picking Up the Pieces - 1988 was released on: USA: December 1988 (Los Angeles, California)
Kitchen Impossible - 2009 Picking Up the Pieces 6-4 was released on: USA: 2010