Matching Pairs N.E. Economies/ResourcesOnline version Match economies and the natural resources. by Lonnie Adams 1 Short growing season and small farming areas meant that.......... 2 Long winters and the ground would freeze so subsistence farming existed so colonists had to.............. 3 Timber 4 The long winters and mild summers led to shipbuilding because... 5 Rocky Soil 6 Atlantic Ocean 7 Good ports this climate allowed strong and tall trees like oak and pine trees to flourish. Shipbuilding there was not a lot of food grown and there was not a surplus of crops. Subsistence Farming Trading Fishing look to the ocean for year round food source such as fishing/whaling.