I think you would be more interested in the location's weather than the climate because if you are wanting to get away from the winter cold for awhile then you would probably plan to go somewhere close to the equator, where it is warmer. A location's weather could be scattered or generally misinterpreted as weather can be random at times.
If you change more than one variable at a time, then you will have a harder time trying to figure out why the certain change occurred.
The answer is mass my friend
Proteins are broken down into amino acids. Side note: the enzyme that helps in breaking protein down is called the protease