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