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