Matching Pairs N.E. Economies/ResourcesOnline version Match economies and the natural resources. by Lonnie Adams 1 Good ports 2 The long winters and mild summers led to shipbuilding because... 3 Long winters and the ground would freeze so subsistence farming existed so colonists had to.............. 4 Timber 5 Atlantic Ocean 6 Rocky Soil 7 Short growing season and small farming areas meant that.......... Shipbuilding Fishing Subsistence Farming 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. this climate allowed strong and tall trees like oak and pine trees to flourish.