Ryan Puzzle

3. Starting and building a business
5. Items that are found in nature and used to produce goods and services
7. Items in their natural state or condition
8. People who assume the risks of starting and operating businesses
9. Nonrenewable, carbon-based energy sources formed underground from the fossilized remains of plants and animals
11. Information used to describe a population
12. To slow down the use of something to make its supply last longer than it would otherwise
14. The people who make or provide goods and services
15. Stock of goods

1. The economic process or activity of producing goods and services
2. A scheduling procedure in which employees select their own working hours as long as they work the required number of hours
4. A method of operating or controlling a process in which tasks are completed by automatic means, such as technology, reducing human effort and labor
6. Maintaining a large inventory
10. Scientific applications to business objectives or the methods used to attain those objectives
13. Scientific applications to business objectives or the methods used to attain those objectives