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 Timber 3 Short growing season and small farming areas meant that.......... 4 Long winters and the ground would freeze so subsistence farming existed so colonists had to.............. 5 Good ports 6 Rocky Soil 7 Atlantic Ocean 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. Fishing Subsistence Farming Trading Shipbuilding there was not a lot of food grown and there was not a surplus of crops.