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 Timber 4 Short growing season and small farming areas meant that.......... 5 Good ports 6 Rocky Soil 7 Long winters and the ground would freeze so subsistence farming existed so colonists had to.............. this climate allowed strong and tall trees like oak and pine trees to flourish. Trading Shipbuilding Subsistence Farming there was not a lot of food grown and there was not a surplus of crops. Fishing look to the ocean for year round food source such as fishing/whaling.