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